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e; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs…

A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

ternal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

e individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne…

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

waked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

Aside; off; in another direction. The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. Lockyer.

ooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

An axis; as, the sun's axle. Had from her axle torn The steadfast earth. Milton.

To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.

A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the t…

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

argest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

een obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.