solar, heliacal[obs3]; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery[obs3];
starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral[obs3]; astral; nebular; uranic. 
     Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the
sun. 
     Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht[Ger]; “earth is but the
frozen echo of the silent voice of God” [Hageman]; “green calm below, blue quietness above” [Whittier]; “hanging in a golden chain this pendant World” [Paradise Lost]; “nothing in nature is unbeautiful” [Tennyson]; “silently as a dream the fabric rose” [Cowper]; “some touch of nature’s genial glow” [Scott]; “this majestical roof fretted with golden fire” [Hamlet]; “through knowledge we behold the World’s creation” [Spenser].

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     #319.  Gravity. —­ N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c. adj.;
specific gravity; pondorosity[obs3], pressure, load; burden, burthen[obs3]; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
     lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
     weighing, ponderation[obs3], trutination|; weights; avoirdupois
weight, troy weight, apothecaries’ weight; grain, scruple, drachma[obs3], ounce, pound, lb, arroba[obs3], load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod[obs3].
     [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram;
nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
     [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam,
weighbridge[obs3]; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.
     [Science of gravity] statics. 
     V. be heavy &c. adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
     [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise. 
     Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable;
lumpish[obs3], lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
     incumbent, superincumbent[obs3].

     #320.  Levity. —­ N. levity; lightness &c. adj.; imponderability,
buoyancy, volatility.
     feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer,
straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
     leaven, ferment, barm[obs3], yeast.
     lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air
balloon.
     convection, thermal draft, thermal. 
     V. be light &c. adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up.
     render light &c. adj.; lighten, leaven. 
     Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous[obs3], imponderable;
astatic[obs3], weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose[obs3], suberous[obs3]; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c. v.; portable.
     light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than
air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon.

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