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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIALING

n.The art of constructing dials, or of drawing dials on a plane. The sciateric science, or knowledge of showing the time by shadows.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIALING

DIALING Di "al *ing, n.

 

1. The art of constructing dials; the science which treats of measuring time by dials. [Written also dialling.]

 

2. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor.