Colure
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- n colure In astronomy and geography, one of two circles of declination intersecting each other at right angles in the poles of the world, one of them passing through the solstitial and the other through the equinoctial points of the ecliptic, viz., Cancer and Capricorn, Aries and Libra, and thus dividing both the ecliptic and the equinoctial into four equal parts.
- n colure In vegetable pathol., a disease of the grape, characterized by the falling of the flowers and the imperfect development of the fruit. It has been attributed chiefly to unfavorable climatic conditions.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- n Colure kō-lūr′ (astron.) one of two great circles supposed to intersect each other at right angles in the poles of the equator.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
F. colure, L. coluri, pl., fr. Gr. ko`loyros dock-tailed, a"i ko`loyroisc. grammai` lines) the colures; fr. ko`los docked, stunted + o'yra` tail. So named because a part is always beneath the horizon
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Gr. kolourus—kolos, docked, oura, tail.
In literature:
Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star.
"Letters on England" by Voltaire
He is now advancing among the stars, and will soon be again upon the equinoctial colure.
"Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.--No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878" by Various
The western star, in the head of Andromeda, lies in the equinoctial colure.
"Letters on Astronomy" by Denison Olmsted
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