cosmolabe

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COSMOLABE, noun s as z. [Gr., world, to take.] An ancient instrument for measuring distances in the heavens or on earth, much the same as the astrolabe, and called also pantacosm.
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