SOLAR

, something relating to the sun. Thus, we say Solar fire in contradistinction to culinary sire.

Solar Civil Month. See Month.

Solar Cycle. See Cycle.

Solar Comet. See Discus.

Solar Eclipse, is a privation of the light of the sun, by the interposition of the opake body of the moon. See Eclipse.

Solar Month, Rising, Spots. See the substantives.

Solar System, the order and disposition of the several heavenly bodies, which revolve round the sun as the centre of their motion; viz, the planets, primary and secondary, and the comets. See System.

Solar Year. See Year.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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SNELL (Rodolph)
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SOLID
SOLIDITY
SOLSTICE
SOLUTION
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