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- Solstitial - a. - Of or pertaining to a solstice.
- Solstitial - a. - Happening at a solstice; esp. (with reference to the northern hemisphere), happening at the summer solstice, or midsummer.
- Colure - n. - One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90¡ from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.
- Point - n. - A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.
- Solstice - v. i. - The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.