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Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold is an expiration from the globe of the earth. Bacon.

ight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Co…

The ball or globe of the eye.

ce aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.

The science which treats: (a) Of the structure and mineral constitution of the globe; structural geology. (b) Of its history as regards rocks, minerals, rivers, valleys, mountains, climates, life, etc.; historical geology. (c) Of the causes and methods by which its structure, features, changes, and conditions have been…

A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.

Having the form of a globe; spherical.

Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical. Milton.

Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane…

A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley.

Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular. "The globy sea." Milton.

The index of the hour circle of a globe.

introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope.

The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it. There was not a man to till the ground. Gen. ii. 5. The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23. Hence:

site plant (Senecio vulgaris) one of the most common, and widely distributed weeds on the globe.

d into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

ing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15º, or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hour…

dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

In the form of a globe or sphere; -- applied to nebulous matter collected into a sphere by the force of gravitation.