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An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Hutton.

The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: Hutton.

ption; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far. Milton. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Burke.

with taper's holy shine. Milton. Fair opening to some court's propitious shine. Pope. The distant shine of the celestial city. Hawthorne.

Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded. Like distant thunder on a shiny day. Dryden.

Not distant in time; near at hand. Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short. Spenser. He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. Clarendon.

e flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.

Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo. Shak.

A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general. I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings. Isa. xix. 11. I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Mal. iii. 6.

The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.

Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.]

In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.

for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed. -- Station staff (Surv.), an instrument for taking angles in surveying. Craig.

se, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. -- Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a h…

Reserved; distant in deportment. Shak. She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne.

In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge thee . . . That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it. Shak.

strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination. By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. Dryden. Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative. L'Estrange.