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Webster 1913 Edition


Dialing

Di′al-ing

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Noun.
1.
The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials.
[Written also
dialling
.]
2.
A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dialing

DIALING

,
Noun.
The art of constructing dials, or of drawing dials on a plane. The sciateric science, or knowledge of showing the time by shadows.