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Meaning of AMPHISCII

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Am*phis"ci*i\, Amphiscians \Am*phis"cians\, n. pl.
[Gr. ? throwing a shadow both ways; ? + ? shadow.]
The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of
the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the
south, according as the sun is south or north of their
zenith.
 
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