Almacantar: Definition and part of speech

Almacantar

  1. n. A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.
  2. n. Same as Almucantar.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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