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n fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidæ; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)

ial points along the ecliptic, at the rate of 50.2" annually, caused by the action of the sun, moon, and planets, upon the protuberant matter about the earth's equator, in connection with its diurnal rotation; -- so called because either equinox, owing to its westerly motion, comes to the meridian sooner each day than…

issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. Shak.

. "Long process of time." Milton. The thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. Tennyson.

A hymn, or other selection, sung during a church procession; as, the processional was the 202d hymn.

elevation. Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append.

To name in, or as, a proverb. [R.] Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool Milton.

ed by Ptolemy, who supposed the earth to be fixed in the center of the universe, with the sun and stars revolving around it. This theory was received for ages, until superseded by the Copernican system.

claim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Addison.

A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. [India] Yule.

prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment. "The race of the undeviating and punctual sun." Cowper. These sharp strokes [of a pendulum], with their inexorably steady intersections, so agree with our successive thoughts that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past. J. Martineau.…

An instrument for measuring the direct heating effect of the sun's rays.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

. Hadley's quadrant, a hand instrument used chiefly at sea to measure the altitude of the sun or other celestial body in ascertaining the vessel's position. It consists of a frame in the form of an octant having a graduated scale upon its arc, and an index arm, or alidade pivoted at its apex. Mirrors, called the index…

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

tnings quicken in her eye. Pope. When the pale and bloodless east began To quicken to the sun. Tennyson.

An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals. [Obs.] "He sang . . . a loud quynyble." Chaucer.

Fiftieth. Quinquagesima Sunday, the Sunday which is the fiftieth day before Easter, both days being included in the reckoning; -- called also Shrove Sunday.