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Snip :: Snip (v. t.) To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away..

Occultation :: Occultation (n.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries..

Clip :: Clip (n.) A cutting; a shearing.

Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn..

Totality :: Totality (n.) The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse..

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Astronomy :: Astronomy (n.) The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena..

Clipper :: Clipper (n.) One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin..

Snub :: Snub (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.

Brash :: Brash (n.) Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges..

Solar :: Solar (a.) Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year..

Inclinnation :: Inclinnation (n.) The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23¡ 28'; the inclination of two rays of light..

Clip :: Clip (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree..

Clipping :: Clipping (n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins..

Digit :: Digit (n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk..

Barb :: Barb (v. t.) To clip; to mow.

Emersion :: Emersion (n.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon..

Clipped :: Clipped (imp. & p. p.) of Cli.

Ecliptic :: Ecliptic (a.) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems..

Pollard :: Pollard (n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit..

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