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A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.
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Alt. of Gnomical
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Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.
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Alt. of Gnomonical
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In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.
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An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate.
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A treatise on gnomonics.
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Alt. of Gnomological
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Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.
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A right line on which the style, or gnomon, of a dial is erected; being the common section of the face of the dial and a plane perpendicular to it passing through the style.
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The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.
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A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.
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The index of the hour circle of a globe.
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A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
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An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
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The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.
v. t.
The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
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According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.
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Gnomonical.
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One skilled in gnomonics.
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