Definition of distant

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Distant (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance..

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Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle..
Antarctic :: Antarctic (a.) Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23¡ 28/. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc..
Long :: Long (superl.) Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
Rodentia :: Rodentia (a.) An order of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order..
Descry :: Descry (v. t.) To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover..
Sextile :: Sextile (n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /..
Level :: Level (n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere..
Sphere :: Sphere (n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center..
Southeast :: Southeast (n.) The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
Center :: Center (n.) A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place..
Equator :: Equator (n.) The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface into two hemispheres..
Travel :: Travel (v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California..
Decile :: Decile (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡..
Voyage :: Voyage (n.) Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country..
Grating :: Grating (n.) A system of close equidistant and parallel lines lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction; -- called also diffraction grating..
Nigh :: Nigh (superl.) Not distant or remote in place or time; near.
Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..
Far :: Far (a.) Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
Farmost :: Farmost (a.) Most distant; farthest.
Son :: Son (n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general..
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