In a highly heated state; exceedingly hot. †burning line: the equator (obsolete). burning zone: the torrid zone (poetic).

Affected or damaged by fire or excessive heat, scorched. †burnt line: the equator. †burnt zone: the torrid zone. In †burnt planet, †burnt way, = co…

= equinoctial line at equinoctial, adj. 1 or equator, n. Obsolete.

The terrestrial equator. Now rare.

With the: the equinoctial line; the equator. under the line: at the equator. (Sometimes written with a capital.)

Geography. A great circle of the earth, in the plane of the celestial equator, and equidistant from the two poles.

transferred uses of 1. That which surrounds, as a girdle does the body; †a zone. †the girdle of the world; the ecliptic, the equator. Also of…

The equator as it was at some time in the past.