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Eccentric :: Eccentric (a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion..

Planet :: Planet (n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system..

Exorbitant :: Exorbitant (a.) Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous.

Orbituary :: Orbituary (a.) Orbital.

Frons :: Frons (n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.

Asteroid :: Asteroid (n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Exorbitantly :: Exorbitantly (adv.) In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously..

Ultrazodiacal :: Ultrazodiacal (a.) Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac..

Perigeum :: Perigeum (n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum..

Eccentricity :: Eccentricity (n.) The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the semi-transverse axis of the orbit.

Malar :: Malar (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit..

Disorb :: Disorb (v. t.) To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere.

Interorbital :: Interorbital (a.) Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum..

Cycle :: Cycle (n.) An imaginary circle or orbit in the heavens; one of the celestial spheres.

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

Orb :: Orb (n.) A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit..

Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..

Oculomotor :: Oculomotor (a.) Of or pertaining to the movement of the eye; -- applied especially to the common motor nerves (or third pair of cranial nerves) which supply many of the muscles of the orbit.

Exorbitance :: Exorbitance (n.) Alt. of Exorbitanc.

Venus :: Venus (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus..

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