palinurus

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun palinurus has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

palinurusn. [So called from L. Palinurus, the pilot of Æneas.].
     An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.  [1913 Webster]

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