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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.

Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body.

ficulties or annoyances. The spiny deserts of scholastic philosophy. Bp. Warburton. Spiny lobster. (Zoöl.) Same as Rock lobster, under Rock. See also Lobster.

is) bearing little yellow tubers. -- Squirrel cup (Bot.), the blossom of the Hepatica triloba, a low perennial herb with cup-shaped flowers varying from purplish blue to pink or even white. It is one of the earliest flowers of spring. -- Squirrel fish (Zoöl.) (a) A sea bass (Serranus fascicularis) of the Southern Uni…

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.

The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ, or young medusæ.

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

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

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.

era, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.

One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.

resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.

Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe. Cudworth. The grand terraqueous spectacle From center to circumference unveiled. Wordsworth.

Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison.

whose shells are more thin and soft, and consist of several joints, or articulations, as lobsters and crabs.

m Canada. -- Cotton thistle, Onopordon Acanthium. -- Fuller's thistle, the teasel. -- Globe thistle, Melon thistle, etc. See under Globe, Melon, etc. -- Pine thistle, Atractylis gummifera, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. -- Scotch thistle, either the cotton thistle…