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Exorbitate :: Exorbitate (v. i.) To go out of the track; to deviate.

Postorbital :: Postorbital (n.) A postorbital bone or scale.

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..

Sun :: Sun (n.) The luminous orb, the light of which constitutes day, and its absence night; the central body round which the earth and planets revolve, by which they are held in their orbits, and from which they receive light and heat. Its mean distance from the earth is about 92,500,000 miles, and its diameter about 860,000..

Apsis :: Apsis (n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides..

Usurer :: Usurer (n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.

Perihelium :: Perihelium (n.) That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun; -- opposed to aphelion.

Eye :: Eye (n.) The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus..

Orbital :: Orbital (a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) An orb or ball.

Orbitelae :: Orbitelae (n. pl.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira..

Usurious :: Usurious (a.) Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person..

Dear :: Dear (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year..

Brow :: Brow (n.) The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit..

Sorbition :: Sorbition (n.) The act of drinking or sipping.

Mesoseme :: Mesoseme (a.) Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.

Yacare :: Yacare (n.) A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman..

Ophryon :: Ophryon (n.) The supraorbital point.

Node :: Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary..

Ophthalmic :: Ophthalmic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead..

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