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punishment. "Judgments are prepared for scorners." Prov. xix. 29. "This judgment of the heavens that makes us tremble." Shak.

To imbue; to infect; to vitiate. With these and the like deceivable doctrines, he leavens also his prayer. Milton.

That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.

intervals of about thirty- three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. Chaucer.

To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect. Who ever knew the heavens menace so Shak.

A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.

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

ceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.

That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon.

rom the north. North following. See Following, a., 2. -- North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north. -- North preceding. See Following, a., 2. -- North star, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems…

The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another 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, .

Origin; commencement; source. It hath it original from much grief. Shak. And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Addison.

ass. See under Bring, and Come. -- To pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass away." 2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am." Tennyson. -- To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. -- To pass into, to chang…

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.

Something made after a model; a copy. Shak. The patterns of things in the heavens. Heb. ix. 23.

f a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.

Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms (Mil.), a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. Wilhelm. -- High place (Sc…