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Subastringent :: Subastral (a.) Beneath the stars or heavens; terrestrial.

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..

Uranology :: Uranology (n.) A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.

Zodiac :: Zodiac (n.) An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16? or 18? broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac..

Starry :: Starriness (n.) The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens..

Black :: Black (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds..

Cormorant :: Cormorant (n.) Any species of Phalacrocorax, a genus of sea birds having a sac under the beak; the shag. Cormorants devour fish voraciously, and have become the emblem of gluttony. They are generally black, and hence are called sea ravens, and coalgeese..

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

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..

Sphere :: Sphere (n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it..

Leavening :: Leavening (n.) That which leavens or makes light.

East :: East (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west..

Astrogeny :: Astrogeny (n.) The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens.

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

Mansion :: Mansion (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8..

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

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

Avens :: Avens (n.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet..

Domify :: Domify (v. t.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense..

Cosmographer :: Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth..

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