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† nocturnlabe Obs. rare.
[irreg. f. nocturn a., after astrolabe.]
= nocturnal n. 2.
1594Blundevil Exerc. vii. xxxix. (1636) 717 To know by the Northstar and his guards, with the helpe of an instrument called a Nocturnlabe, the houre of the night. [1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Nocturlabe, is an Instrument used to find how much the North Star is higher or lower than the Pole at all Hours of the Night.] |