heteroscian (sc as sh)

& s. [Lat. heter oscii, s. pl.=heteroscians; Gr. hetero skios, adj. from pref. hetero-, and Gr. ski a =a shadow.] A. As adjective : Astron. & Geog .: Of or belonging to two parts of the earth's surface, so situated with regard to each other that the shadows of two persons, the one in the one place and the other in the other, will fall in different directions. B. As substantive: Astron. & Geog.: Persons living in such parts of the earth as to make their shadows fall different ways. They must obviously exist, some in the northern, and others in the southern hemisphere. hět-er-ō-sis, s . [Gr. heteros another, different.] Rhet.: A figure of speech by which one form of an inflectional part of speech, as of a noun, verb, or pronoun, is used for another.