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Equation :: Equation (n.) A quantity to be applied in computing the mean place or other element of a celestial body; that is, any one of the several quantities to be added to, or taken from, its position as calculated on the hypothesis of a mean uniform motion, in order to find its true position as resulting from its actual and unequal motion..

Socket :: Socket (n.) Especially, the hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick..

Encomberment :: Encomberment (n.) Hindrance; molestation.

Aries :: Aries (n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram..

Equator :: Equator (n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line..

Stele :: Stela (n.) A small column or pillar, used as a monument, milestone, etc..

Telestic :: Telestic (a.) Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.

Needlestone :: Needlestone (n.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.

Nativity :: Nativity (n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born..

Scallion :: Scallion (n.) A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot..

Ethereal :: Ethereal (a.) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions..

Kami :: Kami (n. pl.) A title given to the celestial gods of the first mythical dynasty of Japan and extended to the demigods of the second dynasty, and then to the long line of spiritual princes still represented by the mikado..

Verditure :: Verditure (n.) The faintest and palest green.

Noisette :: Noisette (n.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth..

Least :: Least (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it..

Microlestes :: Microlestes (n.) An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata..

Rubblestone :: Rubblestone (n.) See Rubble, 1 and 2..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2..

Element :: Element (n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based..

Celestify :: Celestify (v. t.) To make like heaven.

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