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The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow.

orless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.

der of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().

The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. B. G. Wilder.

A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star. In the small orb of one particular tear. Shak. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. Milton.

A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.

reat circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy.

containing, having the qualities of, like; as in verbose, full of words; pilose, hairy; globose, like a globe.

To exaggerate; as, to overcharge a description. Overcharged mine. (Mil.) See Globe of compression, under Globe.

A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

d amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.

stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.

earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.

s of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.

A small lobster. Travis.

A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.