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on; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.

(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.

he loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

ing to, or characterized by,, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

- Mean sun, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean noon. -- Mean time, time as measured by an equable motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in contradistinction fro…

Of or pertaining to the meridian.

The state of being in the meridian.

In the direction of the meridian.

e from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric. Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanza, the first and third having each four feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; -- usually indicated by the in…

The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian.

p; as, a mural precipice. Mural circle (Astron.), a graduated circle, in the plane of the meridian, attached permanently to a perpendicular wall; -- used for measuring arcs of the meridian. See Circle, n., 3. -- Mural crown (Rom. Antiq.), a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a battlement, besto…

rsighted. Myopic astigmatism, a condition in which the eye is affected with myopia in one meridian only.

The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.

our cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.

Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to Ant: southing.

sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian. -- Oblique speech (Rhet.), speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker. -- Oblique sphere (Astron. & Geog.), the celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis…

ction with, something else. The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself upon the true meridian. Sir T. Browne.

Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.

f that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.

rotation; -- so called because either equinox, owing to its westerly motion, comes to the meridian sooner each day than the point it would have occupied without the motion of precession, and thus precedes that point continually with reference to the time of transit and motion.