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est; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

idated in the adult. -- Occipital point (Anat.), the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.

ion of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles.

The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.

Taylor. -- Odds and ends, that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.

A collection of miscellaneous pieces.

Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection; an olio. B. Jonson.

t them from drafts. Omnibus bill, a legislative bill which provides for a number of miscellaneous enactments or appropriations. [Parliamentary Cant, U.S.] -- Omnibus box, a large box in a theater, on a level with the stage and having communication with it. [Eng.] Thackeray.

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

r when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol as, .

nal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.

A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star. In the small orb of one particular tear. Shak. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. Milton.

biculate. -- Or*bic"u*lar*ly, adv. -- Or*bic"u*lar*ness, n. Orbicular as the disk of a planet. De Quincey.

n which is made by drawing lines, from every point to be projected, perpendicular to the plane of projection. Such a projection of the sphere represents its circles as seen in perspective by an eye supposed to be placed at an infinite distance, the plane of projection passing through the center of the sphere perpendicu…

A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.

Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet.

sculatory circle. (Geom.) See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. -- Osculatory plane (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve. -- Osculatory sphere (to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.…

eam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.

n on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.