A Southern pronunciation of the word stairs, like bar for bear; also heard in New England.
The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the b...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The popular name of comets. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A name for the nautical stars, which, from their positions having been very exactly ascertained, are...
Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...
Those used for lunar computations in the nautical ephemeris. ...
When several stars appear in close proximity to each other, they are spoken of, collectively, as a m...
About 72 of the brightest, which have been selected for determining the latitude or the longitude, b...
Those innumerable bodies bespangling the heavens from pole to pole, distinguishable from the planets...
Those which have suddenly become visible, and after attaining considerable brightness, have as sudde...
Those which are found to exhibit periodical fluctuations of brightness; of which Algol and Mira Ceti...
The relative degrees of apparent size in which the fixed stars are arranged, and classed according t...
A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...