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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.

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.

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

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

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.

om 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 thistl…

follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. Cowper. You may trace the deluge quite round the globe. T. Burnet. I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe. What seas you traversed, and what fields you fought. Pope.

nd fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).

An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.

Unlike. [Obs.] Not unconform to other shining globes. Milton.

ndsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward.

ption or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.

ered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.

and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic wo…