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ontal hammer. -- Nose hole (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. -- Nose key (Carp.), a fox wedge. -- Nose leaf (Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies…

The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.

rmerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval. "This wooden O [Globe Theater]". Shak.

Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly…

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.

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.

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

ing 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.

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.

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.

Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf. -- Ped"ate*ly, adv.