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A globefish.

hed in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.

lants, usually by some species of Phylloxera. -- Seed leaf (Bot.), a cotyledon. -- Seed lobe (Bot.), a cotyledon; a seed leaf. -- Seed oil, oil expressed from the seeds of plants. -- Seed oyster, a young oyster, especially when of a size suitable for transplantation to a new locality. -- Seed pearl, a small pearl…

A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa.

Designed or employed to separate. Separating funnel (Chem.), a funnel, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.

An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.

umerous species of geometrid moths of the genus Lobophora, having the hind wings deeply bilobed, so that they seem to have six wings.

ceous. Silky oak (Bot.), a lofty Australian tree (Grevillea robusta) with silky tomentose lobed or incised leaves. It furnishes a valuable timber.

Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.

A depression between adjoining lobes.

pound of alumina and silica, and often used for making fire bricks. Tomlinson. -- Slate globe, a globe the surface of which is made of an artificial slatelike material. -- Slate pencil, a pencil of slate, or of soapstone, used for writing on a slate. -- Slate rocks (Min.), rocks which split into thin laminæ, not nec…

Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a Ant: hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.

waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Shak.

Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth. Of celestial bodies, first the sun, A mighty sphere, he framed. Milton.

A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea.

Firmly fixed or established; fast fixed; firm. "This steadfast globe of earth." Spenser.

ke; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. Woodward.

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

To draw or drain. Old ocean, sucked through the porous globe. Thomson.

-- Swallow-tailed moth (Zoöl.), a European moth (Urapteryx sambucaria) having tail-like lobes on the hind wings.