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Tide :: Tide (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied

Epoch :: Epoch (n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860..

Lunar :: Lunar (a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations..

Semilunate :: Semilunate (a.) Semilunar.

Superlunary :: Superlunar (a.) Alt. of Superlunar.

Supermaterial :: Superlunary (a.) Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary.

Eclipse :: Eclipse (n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, thoug

Sublunary :: Sublunar (a.) Alt. of Sublunar.

Semilunar :: Semilunar (a.) Shaped like a half moon.

Dial :: Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

Interlunary :: Interlunary (a.) Belonging or pertaining to the time when the moon, at or near its conjunction with the sun, is invisible..

Lunar :: Lunar (a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs..

Year :: Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

Paraselene :: Paraselene (n.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.

Embolism :: Embolism (n.) Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year..

Lunar :: Lunar (n.) A lunar distance.

Ganza :: Ganza (n.) A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world..

Semilunar :: Semilunar (n.) The semilunar bone.

Semilunary :: Semilunary (a.) Semilunar.

Moon :: Moon (n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month..

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