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<hw>Ec*legm"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>\'82clegme</ets>, L. <ets>ecligma</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to lick up.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups.</def>

<i>John Quincy.</i>

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<hw>E*clipse"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>\'82clipse</ets>, L. <ets>eclipsis</ets>, fr. Gr. <?/, prop., a forsaking, failing, fr. <?/ to leave out, forsake; <?/ out + <?/ to leave. See <er>Ex-</er>, and <er>Loan</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an <i>occultation</i>. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a <i>transit</i> of the planet.</def>

<note>&hand; In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded as forerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature.</note>

<blockquote>That fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the <b>eclipse</b>, and rigged with curses dark. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.</def>

<blockquote>All the posterity of our fist parents suffered a perpetual <b>eclipse</b> of spiritual life. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>As in the soft and sweet <b>eclipse</b>, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips. <i>Shelley.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Annular eclipse</col>. <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Annular</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cycle of eclipses</col>. <cd>See under <er>Cycle</er>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>E*clipse"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Eclipsed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Eclipsing</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; <as>as, the moon <ex>eclipses</ex> the sun</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.</def> "His <i>eclipsed</i> state."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>My joy of liberty is half <b>eclipsed</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>E*clipse"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To suffer an eclipse.</def>

<blockquote>While the laboring moon <b>Eclipses</b> at their charms. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ecliptic</h1> <Xpage=469>

<hw>E*clip"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82cliptique</ets>, L. <ets>linea ecliptica</ets>, Gr. <?/, prop. adj., of an eclipse, because in this circle eclipses of the sun and moon take place. See <er>Ecliptic</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23&deg; 28\'b7. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geog.)</fld> <def>A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23&deg; 28\'b7 with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.</def>

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<hw>E*clip"tic</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>eclipticus</ets> belonging to an eclipse, Gr. <?/. See <er>Eclipse</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to the ecliptic; <as>as, the <ex>ecliptic</ex> way</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.</def>