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Equinox
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EQUINOX. The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun is one half of a natural day. Dig. 43, 13, 1, 8. Vide Day.



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Under the moon theory, the fall equinox can vary by more than one month, which would mean that fawns may or may not drop during the period of peak nutrition.
After the fall equinox, they sensed the power of darkness as the night steadily lengthened and the day got shorter.
5 days before the Hunter's Moon, the second full moon after the fall equinox -- as the average breeding date for 1,053 does collected over a 13-year period on the coastal plain of South Carolina.
 
 
 
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