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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [lowercase] An instrument for determining the error of a ship's compass by the bearing of celestial objects.
- noun The typical and only living genus of Palinuridæ. P. vulgaris is known as the spiny lobster, rock-lobster, or sea-crawfish.
- noun A genus of stromateoid fishes: same as
Lirus .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.
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- noun type genus of the family Palinuridae
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