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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the sponge-spicules, a hexactinellid element in which one or more of the rays have the form of a plume or pine-cone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.), obsolete One of the sights of an astrolabe.
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- noun astronomy, obsolete One of the
sights of anastrolabe .
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