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That point in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another at which the former is nearest to the latter...
Pistol
The smallest firearm used intended to be fired from one hand now of many patterns and bearing a great variety of names See Illust of Revolver...
Phenakistoscope
A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion as an animal leaping etc in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen...
Pernot furnace
A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth used in making steel...
Peristrephic
Turning around rotatory revolving as a peristrephic painting of a panorama...
Meteoroid
A small body moving through space or revolving about the sun which on entering the earths atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor...
Orby
Orblike having the course of an orb revolving...
Opisometer
An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line as on a map...
Moon
The celestial orb which revolves round the earth the satellite of the earth a secondary planet whose light borrowed from the sun is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night The diameter of the moon is 2160 miles its mean distance from the earth is 240000 miles and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth See Lunar month under Month...
Premeditate
To think on and revolve in the mind beforehand to contrive and design previously as to premeditate robbery...
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