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Alborak :: Alborak (n.) The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

Refraction :: Refraction (n.) The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth's atmosphere; -- hence distinguished as atmospheric refraction, or astronomical refraction..

Firmament :: Firmament (v. & a.) The region of the air; the sky or heavens.

Midheaven :: Midheaven (n.) The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian..

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..

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..

Southing :: Southing (n.) The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian of a place..

Tour :: Tour (v. t.) A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies..

Period :: Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet..

Telescope :: Telescope (n.) An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies..

Vault :: Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.

Transit :: Transit (v. t.) To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.

Latitude :: Latitude (n.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.

Region :: Region (n.) The upper air; the sky; the heavens.

Heavening :: Heavening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heave.

Aloft :: Aloft (adv.) In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven..

Grace :: Grace (v. t.) To supply with heavenly grace.

Middle-earth :: Middle-earth (n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell..

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