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Nomic :: Nomic (a.) Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods..

Huswifely :: Huswifely (a.) Like a huswife; capable; economical; prudent.

Economist :: Economist (n.) One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.

Economic :: Economic (a.) Alt. of Economica.

Economical :: Economical (a.) Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.

Oeconomical :: Oeconomical (a.) See Economical.

Ptolemaist :: Ptolemaist (n.) One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.

Regulator :: Regulator (n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock..

Flexure :: Flexure (n.) The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or substracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.

Table :: Table (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables,

Astronomic :: Astronomic (a.) Astronomical.

Quadrinomical :: Quadrinomical (a.) Quadrinomial.

Dog Star :: Dog Star () Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days..

Isonomic :: Isonomic (a.) The same, or equal, in law or right; one in kind or origin; analogous; similar..

Prutenic :: Prutenic (a.) Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian..

Oeconomics :: Oeconomics (n.) See Economics.

Sector :: Sector (n.) An astronomical instrument, the limb of which embraces a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used for measuring zenith distances of stars, it is called a zenith sector..

Astroscope :: Astroscope (n.) An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated..

Housewifely :: Housewifely (a.) Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.

Stadium :: Stadium (n.) A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia..

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