Eclipse

e-klips′, n. an obscuration of one of the heavenly bodies by the interposition of another, either between it and the spectator, or between it and the sun: lo of brilliancy: darkne .— v.t. to hide a luminous body wholly or in part: to darken: to throw into the shade, to cut out, surpa .— p.adjs. Eclipsed′ , darkened, obscured; Eclips′ing , darkening, obscuring.— n. Eclip′tic , the name given to the great circle of the heavens round which the sun seems to travel, from west to east, in the course of a year: a great circle on the globe corresponding to the celestial ecliptic.— adj. pertaining to an eclipse or the ecliptic. [Through O. Fr. and L. from Gr. ekleipsis — ek , out, leipein , to leave.]