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Meaning of COSMOLABE

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Cos"mo*labe\ (k?z"m?-l?b), n. [Gr. ??? the world +
???? to take: cf. F. cosmolade.]
An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for
measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also
{pantacosm}.

 

 

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