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Astrolabe

noun
1.
An early form of sextant.





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"Astrolabe" Quotes from Famous Books



... care of him," said Malicorne, "only I must study faces and circumstances a little better before I act; those are my magical inventions and contrivances; and while sorcerers are enabled by means of their astrolabe to take the altitude of the sun, moon, and stars, I am satisfied merely by looking into people's faces, in order to see if their eyes are encircled with dark lines, and if the mouth describes a convex ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... aboriginal name for a black woman. The name comes from Tasmania, appearing first in the form loubra, in a vocabulary given in the 'Voyage de Decouvertes de l'Astrolabe' (Paris, 1834), vol. vii. p. 9, and was obtained from a Tasmanian woman, belonging to Port Dalrymple on the Tamar River. It is probably a compound of the Tasmanian words loa or lowa, a woman, and proi (with variants), big. In Victoria, the use of the word began ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


Words linked to "Astrolabe" :   sextant


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