colure
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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
"Where the four circles, the horizon, the zodiac, the equator, and the equinoctial colure, join; the last threeintersecting each other so as to form three crosses, as may be seen in the armillary sphere." v.
From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Henry Francis Cary
And as the equinoctial colure passed through the middle of Aries, when that sphere was constructed, he infers, by calculations of their retrograde motion from their place then till the year A.D.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
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 William Tyler Olcott
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 William Tyler Olcott
