"Curtate" is a word in ENGLISH
Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet
from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the
distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let
fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the
ecliptic.
Elizabeth called it my mane of hair; I called it my bane of hair. However, it was far worse looking when it was short, sticking straight up or out at awkward angles; at least when it was long it almost obeyed gravity.
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A woman and her lover are on the bed in the woman's home, whenall of a sudden, they hear the front door open and close."Oh, no, it's my husband!"The man says, "Where's your back door?""We don't have a back door" says the woman.The man then asks, "Well, where do you want a back door?"
The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
Read the complete definitionThe distance in degrees, reckoned from the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the …
Read the complete definitionOne of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance …
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