ANTHELION (late Gr. avOil]uos, opposite the sun)

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ANTHELION (late Gr. avOil]uos, opposite the sun) , the luminous

ring

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra,
wheel
- WHEEL (0. Eng. hweol, hweohl, &c., cognate with Icel. hjol, Dan. hiul, the Indo-European
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  is seen in Sanskrit chakra, Gr. r in Aos, circle, whence " cycle ")
- WHEEL, BREAKING ON THE
, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a
band
- BAND
of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

or halo sometimes seen in Alpine or polar regions surrounding the shadow of the head of an observer cast upon a

bank

BANK

cloud

CLOUD (from the same
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

or mist. The halo diminishes in brightness from the centre outwards, and is probably due to the diffraction of

light

LIGHT

. Under favourable 'conditions four concentric rings may be seen

round

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

the shadow of the observer's head, the outermost, which seldom appears, having an angular

radius

RADIUS

of 400.

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