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Ephemeris

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A diary; a journal. Johnson.

2. A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac."

3. Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.

4. A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. Brande & C.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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