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A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

ein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

n a level plain bounds our view, and is formed by the apparent meeting of the earth and heavens, as distinguished from the rational horizon. -- Apparent time. See Time. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.…

The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens. H. Spencer.

The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.

aching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the heavens from east to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers…

On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior.

The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

l sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. Shak.

uminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

Belonging to the aërial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." Shak.

A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.

To make appeal; to cry out. [Obs.] Wandering in woe, and to the heavens on high Cleping for vengeance of this treachery. Mir. for Mag.

Involving many parts; complicated; intricate. When the actual motions of the heavens are calculated in the best possible way, the process is difficult and complex. Whewell. Complex fraction. See Fraction. -- Complex number (Math.), in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are o…

To set or adorn with stars or constellations; as, constellated heavens. J. Barlow.

A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as m…