colure

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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)

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

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

Now the Serpent was so arranged as to be shown writhing itself for some distance along the equator, and then struggling upwards, along the autumnal colure, marking the zenith with its head.

From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)

Thus after seventy-two years the colure of the vernal equinox which passed through a fixed star, corresponds with another fixed star. 

From Letters on England by Voltaire