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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Dial  \Di"al\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Dialed}or  {Dialled};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Dialing}  or  {Dialling}.] 
  1.  To  measure  with  a  dial. 
 
  Hours  of  that  true  time  which  is  dialed  in  heaven. 
  --Talfourd. 
 
  2.  (Mining)  To  survey  with  a  dial.  --Raymond. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Dialing  \Di"al*ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  art  of  constructing  dials;  the  science  which  treats  of 
  measuring  time  by  dials.  [Written  also  {dialling}.] 
 
  2.  A  method  of  surveying,  especially  in  mines,  in  which  the 
  bearings  of  the  courses,  or  the  angles  which  they  make 
  with  each  other  are  determined  by  means  of  the 
  circumferentor. 




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