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view on the upper limb, at rising and setting, some parts not in the average visible hemisphere.

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]

ud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.

The indistinct and magnified appearance of objects seen in particular states of the atmosphere. See Mirage.

ines; as, loxodromic tables. Loxodromic curve or line (Geom.), a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass.

t area of spherical surface, due to a light of unit intensity placed at the center of the sphere.

A city of Saxony. Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.

A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere. Macaulay.

s represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.

A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.

Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. Hail, an ordinary meteor. Bp. Hall.

body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. H. A. Newton.

Of or pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology. Meteorological table, Meteorological register, a table or register exhibiting the state of the air and its temperature, weight, dryness, moisture, motion, etc.

The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.

An astrolabe; a planisphere. [Obs.]

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

t; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.

Consisting of one sphere only.

The sphere or globular mass of cells (blastomeres), formed by the clevage of the ovum or egg in the first stages of its development; -- called also mulberry mass, segmentation sphere, and blastosphere. See Segmentation.