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Gag :: Gag (v. i.) To heave with nausea; to retch.

Heave Offering :: Heave offering () An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering..

Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To force from, or into, any position; to cause to move; also, to throw off; -- mostly used in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the ship ahead..

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.

Semidiurnal :: Semidiurnal (a.) Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc..

Divine :: Divine (a.) Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree; supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir J. Davies..

Mow :: Mow (v. t.) To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away..

Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.

Northing :: Northing (n.) The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination.

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

Stellion :: Stellify (v. t.) To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to place among the stars, or in heaven..

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6..

Galaxy :: Galaxy (n.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars..

Hove :: Hove () imp. & p. p. of Heave.

Assumption :: Assumption (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

Orb :: Orb (n.) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.

Heaven :: Heaven (v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify..

Log :: Log (n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.

Zion :: Zion (n.) The heavenly Jerusalem; heaven.

Almacantar :: Almacantar (n.) A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

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