colure
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Then if the Earth's pole look to E, the �quinoxes are at D, C. Let this be at the time of Metho, when the horns of Aries were in the �quinoctial colure.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, where the solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
The equator, ecliptic, and equinoctial colure intersect each other at a point close to the star η.
From A Field Book of the Stars by Olcott, William Tyler
The meridian at midnight at the time of the spring equinox is called a "colure,"—the "autumnal colure," because the sun crosses it in autumn.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
He is now advancing among the stars, and will soon be again upon the equinoctial colure.
