·add. ·- A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.
·noun A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Obelisk, tower, land, or anything for directing the course by sight. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. II. Solar ·adj Born under the predominant influence of...
an upper chamber or loft ; from the Latin SOLARIUM. S. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·add. ·- A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civiliza...
·add. ·- The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the...
A chronological term; it is the moon's cycle multiplied into that of the sun. ...
Is the interval which elapses between two successive meridian transits of the sun, and is the unit o...
The coloured image of the sun produced by refraction through a prism. ...
See maculæ. ...
The sun, planets, and comets, which are assumed to form a system, independent of the surrounding fix...
See precession of the equinoxes. ...