, is used sometimes for a perpendicular.
NORTH Star, called also the Pole-star, is the last in the tail of the Little Bear.
Northern Signs, are those six that are in the north side of the equator; viz, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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