falling stars

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• Falling

  ·adj & ·noun from Fall, ·vi. II. Falling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fall>>. ...

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• Stars

  The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the b...

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• stars

  A Southern pronunciation of the word stairs, like bar for bear; also heard in New England. ...

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• Tear-falling

  ·adj Shedding tears; tender. ...

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• falling glass

  When the mercury of the barometer is sinking in the tube. ...

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• falling home

  When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...

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• falling off

  The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's hea...

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• falling out

  When the top-sides project beyond a perpendicular, as in flaring. ...

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• falling tide

  , or ebb of tide. This phrase, implying a previous flow of tide towards high-water, requires here ...

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• blazing stars

  The popular name of comets. ...

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• clock-stars

  A name for the nautical stars, which, from their positions having been very exactly ascertained, are...

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• greenwich stars

  Those used for lunar computations in the nautical ephemeris. ...

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• multiple stars

  When several stars appear in close proximity to each other, they are spoken of, collectively, as a m...

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• nautical stars

  About 72 of the brightest, which have been selected for determining the latitude or the longitude, b...

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• stars, fixed

  Those innumerable bodies bespangling the heavens from pole to pole, distinguishable from the planets...

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• temporary stars

  Those which have suddenly become visible, and after attaining considerable brightness, have as sudde...

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• variable stars

  Those which are found to exhibit periodical fluctuations of brightness; of which Algol and Mira Ceti...

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• magnitudes of stars

  The relative degrees of apparent size in which the fixed stars are arranged, and classed according t...

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• proper motion of the stars

  A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...

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