Gnome: alternatives and connections

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

(chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a perc…

A white fibrous mineral frequently found on the walls of mines and quarries, chiefly hydrous sulphate of alumina; -- also called feath…

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade.

A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the sh…

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing throug…

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth.

An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, c…

An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.

either of two complex numbers whose real parts are identical and whose imaginary parts differ only in sign

One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardia…

An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle w…

In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.

One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.

An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hill…

The imaginary great circle on the earth's surface, everywhere equally distant from the two poles, and dividing the earth's surface int…