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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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Greenwich Alley
In Brickhill Lane, Thames Street (Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps. ...

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Greenwich Street
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 83 (P.O. Directory). In Dowgate Ward and Vintry Ward. Earli...

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Little Greenwich
At the south-east end of Horn Alley, Aldersgate Street, in Aldegate Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1...

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greenwich barbers
Retailers of sand from the pits at and about Greenwich, in Kent: perhaps they are styled barbers, fr...

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greenwich goose
A pensioner of Greenwich Hospital. ...

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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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falling stars
Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...

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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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Little Greenwich Alley, Aldersgate Street
See Little Greenwich. ...

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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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