The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West. From LearnThat.org. [Bernard de Voto (1897-1955)]
meridian hour. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
All points on the same meridian have the same longitude. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The largest meridian is 180 degrees as you ought to know very well. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
The large largest meridian is 180 degrees as you ought to know very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Navigator] Reference
Miller specializes in Japanese meridian therapy and fertility enhancement. From Wordnik.com. [DesMoinesRegister.com - NEWS] Reference
For the word meridian means a line drawn exactly north or south from any place. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young] Reference
A meridian is a great circle reaching around the earth, and passing through the equator and the poles. From Wordnik.com. [Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing] Reference
It flows up the Ren meridian, which is in the front midline of the body close to the surface, to the Bai Hui point. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Soul Songs] Reference
"Yes," said Jonas; "a line drawn exactly north and south, is called a meridian line; and that is exactly north and south.". From Wordnik.com. [Rollo's Experiments] Reference
Fijians exactly in the same meridian with Greenwich, which in some measure may be called the meridian of civilization, for nothing?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
From there it flows down the Du meridian, which is in the back midline of the body within the spinal cord, and returns to the Hui Yin. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Soul Songs] Reference
There are 180° of longitude either side of a starting meridian which is known the Prime meridian. From Wordnik.com. [Location, distance, and direction on maps] Reference
And 'meridian' finds its everyday usage in AM/PM (ante meridian and post meridian) (ante: before; post: after). From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
Méridien is also a masculine noun, which means "meridian," and an adjective méridienne, méridien which means "midday" or "meridian.". From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
Méridien is also a masculine noun, which means "meridian," and an adjective (méridienne, méridien) which means "midday" or "meridian.". From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
Attain meridian strength, and shine without. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to Peace] Reference
But the meridian is the basis of our sun-dials, and generally speaking, we should have no sun-dials if we had no sun. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Student's, 5 inches, revolving brass meridian 5.00. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
To-day nearly calm; made but 80 miles since meridian yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
At meridian had made 225 miles, and were in lat. 26° 47 '; long. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
The ship dressed with flags, and a national salute fired at meridian. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
At meridian he again opened his eyes, and the same question was repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
It marks the meridian from which English astronomers make their calculations. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
The sun had now passed its meridian, and it seemed to be one o'clock or after. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
On the floor of the left aisle is the meridian line traced by Cassini in 1652. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
And now, as the sun crept up toward the meridian, their appetites began to clamor for food. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
The sun is at the meridian, and they will be alarmed at the cabin, if we do not return soon. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
In this case the eye is made farsighted or hyperopic in one meridian, and is normal in the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
A calmer view has regarded him as the daring agent of acts fitter for the meridian of Hindoo morality than. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The Kansas Pacific was designed to unite with the main branch about the 100 deg. meridian, near Fort Kearney. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The sun has advanced far in its path, and I am warned that my time to instruct you is limited to the meridian sun. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
On the floor of the western end is the meridian traced by the astronomer Cassini while engaged in the triangulation of France. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The axis of the cylindrical lens should be at right angles to the defective meridian of the eye, in order to correct the astigmatism. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The most complete polarisation seems to take place near the horizon; and, when the sun is near the meridian, towards the west and east. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
The wind lulled that night to a light breeze, yet the red clouds and haze in the east betokened a gale from that quarter before meridian. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
As he began to ascend the mountain the sun had passed the meridian, and poured its heated rays against the western slope of the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca] Reference
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