G -threads glossary

GNOMON

GNOMON, in Dialling , the style, pin, or cock of a dial, which by its shadow shows the hour of the day.

The gnomon of every dial reprefents the axis of the earth: .— The word is Greek, which literally implies something that makes a thing known;  by reason that the style or pin indicates or makes the hour known.

Gnomon, in astronoomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to find the altitude of the sun.  -source 1815 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica

GOSSAMER:

The often unseen thread like substance spun by spiders in the natural world; the wispy and delicate web work that may be seen shimmering in landscapes when light reflects upon it; subtle insubstantial thread like webs connecting objects in a landscape and usually unobserved by uninterested eye.