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f a mountain; the top of the ground. The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold. Milton.

A turn; a revolution; as, the tours of the heavenly bodies. [Obs.] Blackmore.

To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds. Howell.

The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

To remove to heaven without a natural death. By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translatedhim. Heb. xi. 5.

-- Tree nymph, a wood nymph. See Dryad. -- Tree of a saddle, a saddle frame. -- Tree of heaven (Bot.), an ornamental tree (Ailantus glandulosus) having long, handsome pinnate leaves, and greenish flowers of a disagreeable odor. -- Tree of life (Bot.), a tree of the genus Thuja; arbor vitæ. -- Tree onion (Bot.), a s…

A state of joy or exultation for success. Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven. Milton. Hercules from Spain Arrived in triumph, from Geryon slain. Dryden.

umphal. [Obs.] Captives bound to a triumphant car. Shak. Church triumphant, the church in heaven, enjoying a state of triumph, her warfare with evil being over; -- distinguished from church militant. See under Militant.

as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford.

incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively; as, to turn the eyes to the heavens; to turn a horse from the road, or a ship from her course; to turn the attention to or from something. "Expert when to advance, or stand, or, turn the sway of battle." Milton. Thrice I deluded her, and turned to sport Her…

Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac.

let down into wells under water, will keep long. Bacon. Be gathered now, ye waters under heaven, Into one place. Milton.

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld. Daniel.

To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. [Obs.] A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements]. Sir P. Sidney.

es from. [An eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. Milton.

hull of a vessel that are properly above water. -- Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.

To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical. On I know not what telluric or uranic principles. Carlyle.

A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.

A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.