Storms which are observed to prevail about the time of the sun's crossing the equator, at which time there is equal day and night throughout the world.
·noun The equinoctial line. II. Equinoctial ·adj Pertaining to an equinox, or the equinoxes, or to ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Synonymous with equator (which see). ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The tremendous storms in 1795-6, which desolated the fleet proceeding to attack the French West Indi...
Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harm...
See ecliptic. ...