Hypertext Webster Gateway: "heliac"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Heliac \He"li*ac\, a.
Heliacal.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
heliac
adj : pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising
of a star after and last setting before its
invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun;
"the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or
Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of
Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star) [syn: {heliacal}]
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