Crossword-Solution: CIRCUMNAVIGATE 14 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 24

The plane of the ecliptic must therefore be conceived as slowly revolving in such a way as gradually to circumnavigate the heavens.

Navigation.--Navigation was not by any means in a rude state in the earliest times: "In the wanderings of the heroes returning from Troy, Aristoricus makes Menelaus circumnavigate Africa more than 500 years before Neco sailed from Gadeira to India." ("Cosmos," vol.

The fisheries of the West of England were the nurseries of the sailors who enabled Drake to circumnavigate the world, and, as he said, to 'singe the King of Spain's beard' on more than one memorable occasion." THE DEFECTIVENESS OF OUR AUSTRALIAN FISH SUPPLY.

Not far below this we came to Lower Disaster Falls, which a short portage enabled us to circumnavigate and go on our way.

The love of danger, the thirst for adventure, the thrilling sense of personal responsibility and human dignity--not the base love for land and lucre--were the governing sentiments which led those bold Dutch and English rovers to circumnavigate the world in cockle-shells, and to beard the most potent monarch on the earth, both at home and abroad, with a handful of volunteers.