Equinoctial

(-kroin-ok's hal.) [From EQUINOX, q. v.] (Ast. and Geog.) See EQUATOR.-E. COLURE. (Ast.) The great circle pa ing through the poles of the sphere and the equinoctial points.-E. FLOWERS. (Bot.) Those flowers which open at a specified hour.-E. POINTS. (Ast.) Aries and Libra, the two points of intersection of the equinoctial and ecliptic.-E. TIME, that degree of time which is calculated from the moment of pa age of the point of Aries over the vernal equinox. E. GALES. (Meteor.) Those storms of wind, ., which occur periodically during the prece ion of the equinoxes. [s. 337]