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A small gland or secreting vessel.

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.

A little globule. Crabb.

A head or dense cluster of flowers, formed by condensation of a cyme, as in the flowering dogwood.

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions.

To give the color of gules to.

e, used poetically for a red color or that which is red. His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.…

A little hook.

One who hauls.

A half spherule.

Requiring the strength of Hercules; hence, very great, difficult, or dangerous; as, an Herculean task.

A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra. Hercules' beetle (Zoöl.), any species of Dynastes, an American genus of very large lamellicorn beetles, esp. D. hercules of South America, which grows to a length of six inches. -- Hercules' club. (Bot.) (a) An ornamental tree of the West Indies (Zanthoxylum Clava…

Having a high or noble spirit; honorable. E. Everett.

An owl. See Howlet.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom.

Not opulent; not affluent or rich.

To entitle; to give a title to. Selden.

nded in one second by an electric current of one ampere in a resistance of one ohm. One joule is approximately equal to 0.738 foot pounds. Joule's equivalent. See under Equivalent, n.