Ecliptic

Ecliptic, that is, except for the few dangling tresses that hang unceremoniously from each globe, as if teased by some mad apprentice comb-slinger.

Buzzine » Weaves and Extensions 2009

The exact path of the sun is called the Ecliptic; and the band of sky on either side of the Ecliptic which may be supposed to include the said constellations is called the Zodiac.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

[The three stars, and, lie very nearly on the Ecliptic, that is, the Sun's path -- a fact to which we shall return presently.] At the moment then when Sirius, the star from the East, by coming to the Meridian at midnight signalled the Sun's new birth, the Virgin was seen just rising on the Eastern sky -- the horizon line passing through her centre.

Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

The Ecliptic is the great circle representing the path in which the sun appears to move in the celestial sphere.

Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

This apparent track is called the Ecliptic as stated before, and in the illustration the Ecliptic is represented by the curved line, C V T.

Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

(The three stars [gr b], [gr g] and [gr a], lie very nearly on the Ecliptic, that is, the Sun's path -- a fact to which we shall return presently.)

Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

The exact path of the sun is called the Ecliptic; and the band of sky on either side of the Ecliptic which may be supposed to include the said constellations is called the

Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning Edward Carpenter 1886

Sun's path through the constellations called Ecliptic, 447-u.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

It is called the Ecliptic because the eclipses of the sun and moon always occur under it.

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

Virgil, in his firft Geo&gic, V. 238, having fpokeri of the two temperate Zones, which lie between the Tropics and the Polar Circles, thus defcribes the Zodiac, or belt of the Ecliptic, which is fuppofed to contain the twelve Signs.

Cider a poem in two books 1791