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armil |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Armil \Ar"mil\, n. [L. armilla a bracelet, fr armus arm: cf OF armille.] 1. A bracelet. [Obs.] 2. An ancient astronomical instrument. Note: When composed of one ring placed in the plane of the equator for determining the time of the equinoxes, it is called an equinoctial armil; when of two or more rings, one in the plane of the meridian, for observing the solstices, it is called a solstitial armil. --Whewell.
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