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Stargazing   Listen
noun
Stargazing  n.  
1.
The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy.
2.
Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction.





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"Stargazing" Quotes from Famous Books



... first privately educated, in 1813 he graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, as senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman. He chose the law as his profession; but in 1816 reported that, under his father's direction, he was going "to take up stargazing." He then began a re-examination of his father's double stars. In 1825 he wrote that he was going to take nebulae under his especial charge. He embarked in 1833 with his family for the Cape; and his work at Feldhausen, six miles from Cape Town, marked the beginning of southern ...
— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various
... Browning's companion. "I was out stargazing last night. Looked at the Long-Handled Dipper a long time, and it gave me an awful thirst. I've had it with me all day. ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish


Words linked to "Stargazing" :   watching, stargaze, observance


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