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Mansion :: Mansion (n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.

Subastringent :: Subastral (a.) Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.

Domify :: Domify (v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense..

Transcend :: Transcend (v. t.) To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds..

Uranology :: Uranology (n.) A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.

Disk :: Disk (n.) The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens..

Uranography :: Uranography (n.) A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology..

Uranoscopy :: Uranoscopy (n.) Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.

West :: West (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east..

Perseid :: Perseid (n.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it..

Decumbiture :: Decumbiture (n.) Aspect of the heavens at the time of taking to one's sick bed, by which the prognostics of recovery or death were made..

Leonid :: Leonid (n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

Astrogeny :: Astrogeny (n.) The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens.

Underworld :: Underworld (n.) The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.

Vertex :: Vertex (n.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead..

Sky :: Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural..

Gravenstein :: Gravenstein (n.) A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality..

Primum Mobile :: Primum mobile () In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline..

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.

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