A book of the first necessity to navigators. (See ephemeris.)
·noun A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and var...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A record of the days, feasts, and celestial phenomena of the year. Though confounded with calendar, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill. ...
Relating to navigation, sailors, or maritime affairs in general. ...
Persons of nautical experience appointed to assist the judge of the admiralty and other courts in te...
That part of the celestial science which treats of the planets and stars so far as relates to the pu...
This day commences at noon, twelve hours before the civil day, and ends at noon of the day following...
(MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...
About 72 of the brightest, which have been selected for determining the latitude or the longitude, b...
Those especially computed for resolution of matters dependent on nautical astronomy, and navigation ...