equinoctial

What the local newspaper called a “stiff breeze,” the national Daily Mail called “equinoctial gales.”

One bright and fragrant spring day—as if on a wild equinoctial whim—Holmes suggested that Minnie invite her sister to Chicago to see the world’s fair, at his expense.

The inner bark of that red willow is the main ingredient used to make tobacco for the equinoctial Sacred Pipe ceremony, which is meant to rekindle the sacred fire of life on Earth.

Soon, he recalls, he reached out through the pages of the Baker Street Journal and began to correspond with other young readers all over the world, seeking “companionship amid the equinoctial gales of early adolescence.”

Hipparchus, whose work primarily took place between 147 and 127 B.C., proposed dividing the day into 24 equinoctial hours, based on the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness observed on equinox days.