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High :: High (n.) An elevated place; a superior region; a height; the sky; heaven.

Appulse :: Appulse (n.) The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian..

Heaven :: Heaven (n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.

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..

Astrography :: Astrography (n.) The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune..

Centaur :: Centaur (n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

Sweep :: Sweep (v. i.) To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope..

Zenith :: Zenith (n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.

Bo Tree :: Bo tree () The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha..

Gigantomachy :: Gigantomachy (n.) A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven..

Heavenly :: Heavenly (a.) Appropriate to heaven in character or happiness; perfect; pure; supremely blessed; as, a heavenly race; the heavenly, throng..

Blessedness :: Blessedness (n.) The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God.

Ecstasy :: Ecstasy (n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries..

Globe :: Globe (n.) A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe..

Sun :: Sun (n.) Any heavenly body which forms the center of a system of orbs.

Deferent :: Deferent (n.) An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round..

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

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..

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

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