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Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

Belonging to planets. [R.] Young.

Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Pertaining to a planetoid.

A little planet. [R.] Conybeare.

A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case. [Eng.]

A small toucan.

A small villa. [R.]

s; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.

ty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

ce. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. -- Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar mot…

Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. -- Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. -- Anomalistic…

The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.

An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.

olete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

Striking against; impinging; as, the appulsive influence of the planets. P. Cyc.