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

Horizon :: Horizon (n.) A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon..

Aries :: Aries (n.) A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth..

Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day

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

Equator :: Equator (n.) The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it, the days and nights are of equal length; hence called also the equinoctial, and on maps, globes, etc., the equinoctial line..

Supercharged :: Supercelestial (a.) Higher than celestial; superangelic.

Archangel :: Archangel (n.) A chief angel; one high in the celestial hierarchy.

Cathay :: Cathay (n.) China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.).

Elevation :: Elevation (n.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star..

Scorpio :: Scorpio (n.) A constellation of the zodiac containing the bright star Antares. It is drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a scorpion.

Scheme :: Scheme (n.) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

Divinity :: Divinity (a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man..

Celestial :: Celestial (n.) A native of China.

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

Celestial :: Celestial (n.) An inhabitant of heaven.

Map :: Map (n.) A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it..

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..

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