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Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..

Earthly :: Earthly (a.) Pertaining to the earth; belonging to this world, or to man's existence on the earth; not heavenly or spiritual; carnal; worldly; as, earthly joys; earthly flowers; earthly praise..

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude.

Octant :: Octant (n.) The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees..

Sabian :: Sabian (n.) An adherent of the Sabian religion; a worshiper of the heavenly bodies.

Heavenliness :: Heavenliness (n.) The state or quality of being heavenly.

Orb :: Orb (n.) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.

Northing :: Northing (n.) The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination.

Nativity :: Nativity (n.) A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope..

Heavenly :: Heavenly (adv.) In a manner resembling that of heaven.

Heliometry :: Heliometry (n.) The apart or practice of measuring the diameters of heavenly bodies, their relative distances, etc. See Heliometer..

Synodal :: Synod (n.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope..

Appulse :: Appulse (n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian..

Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79¡..

Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies.

Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..

Uranography :: Uranography (n.) A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology..

Heavenly :: Heavenly (adv.) By the influence or agency of heaven.

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