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Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.

Shaped like a globe.

A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.

Trollius (T. Europæus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.

To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass. Then founded, then conglobed Like things to like. Milton.

To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

ation for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.

meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. -- Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. -- For Angles of commutation, draught, incidence, reflection, re…

phical and anthological description of all empires and kingdoms . . . in this terrestrial globe. Wood.

Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.

Those who live on the side of the globe diametrically opposite.

t legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier. Burrill. Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to astronomy. Bacon. The structure of the eye, and of its appurtenances. Reid.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

A constellation west of Taurus, drawn on the celestial globe in the figure of a ram.

first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name.

fe; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

ons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]