globen.

Brit.

/ɡləʊb/, U.S.

/ɡloʊb/

Forms: late Middle English– globe, 1500s gloabe, 1500s glope, 1600s–1700s glob; Scottish pre-1700 glob, pre-1700 gloib, pre-1700 gloube, pre-1700 1700s– globe.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin globus.

Etymology: < classical Latin globus compact mass of spherical shape, sphere of a celestial object, spherical structure depicting the arrangement of the constellations, dense mass (of vapour, fire, etc.), closely packed throng of soldiers or other people or of animals, band, clique, mass (of things), in post-classical Latin also eye or eyeball (4th or 5th cent.), orb (14th cent. in a British source), cannonball (16th cent. in British and continental sources), perhaps < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the same Indo-European base as classical Latin glēba glebe n. Compare Middle French, French globe spherical or near-spherical body (1552; earlier in sense ‘roll (of fabric)’ (14th cent. in an isolated attestation)), spherical structure on which is depicted a map of the world (17th cent.), total mass of something (a1630). Compare also Spanish globo (c1440), Portuguese globo (1537), Italian globo (a1292).With branch II. compare earlier glub n.¹ With the globe of (the) earth at sense 3a compare Middle French, French globe de la terre (1552). With the form glob compare earlier glub n.¹

I. Senses relating to a sphere.

a. A spherical or rounded body; a roundish formation. Cf. sphere n. 9a.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular object

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appleeOE

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roundc1330

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rotundity?a1425

spherea1425

pomec1440

globec1450

orba1500

rotund1550

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pompom1748

c1450 Alphabet of Tales 323 As he [sc. St Martin] was at mes, a byrnyng globe aperid abown his head.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Typhonae, be certayne impressions in the ayre lyke globes of fyre or dartes.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. But in a Globe, (whiche is a bodie rounde as a bowle) there is but one platte forme, and one bounde.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 15 A diameter of a sphere, or globe, is any lyne drawen thorowe the same, goyng by the center of the sphere, or globe.

1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D The fume..mounts..In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 79 The outward roofe is divided into foure globes, covered with leade.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §18 All those particles were not at first Sphærical, because many such little Globes joyned together will not fill up a continued space.

1783 B. Franklin in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 424 The experiment of a vast Globe [sc. a balloon] sent up into the air, much talk'd of here at present.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 155 The other tall [foot-note The Guelder Rose], and throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring Cypress..Her silver globes.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 277 The earth is..not a perfect globe.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 109 Bright golden globes Of fruit, suspended in their own green heaven.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 616 In the form of a globe, round as from a lathe.

1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars xviii. 248 At each thorn-tip, as the flame licks near, wells out and gathers a milk-pale globe of poison.

1955 R. Carson Edge of Sea iv. 179 These shores are strewn..with the heavy armaments of the whelks, and with the smooth globes of the moon snails.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 13 July 43/2 Try the softball-size tartufo, a globe of ice cream coated in crunchy chocolate with a candied cherry center.

†b. In early astronomy: the sphere (sphere n. 2a) occupied by the sun, the moon, or a planet. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > of particular body > of sun or moon

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continenta1616

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 41 The Fyre..shal ascend above them, and be next the Globe of the Mone.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Inferiour Inferiour Planets are those which are placed below the Globe of the Sun.

†c. A fireball; a meteor. Also more fully fiery globe. Cf. fireball n. 2a. Obsolete.

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the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun] > fireball

fiery globe1561

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1561 tr. Hist. Strange Wonders sig. Biiii^v In the. M. D. L. three fyrye globes wer sene in the aire in ye night in Misnia Lipsia, which certaine students & famous men did beholde.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 9^v Of shieldes Globes or Bowles. These Meteores also haue their name of their fashion, because they..appeare to be rounde.

1799 tr. in N. Webster Brief Hist. Epidemic & Pestilential Dis. I. vii. 222 In the beginning of October appeared over the city a blue fiery globe or meteor, which came from the north west.

1861 J. F. W. Herschel Outl. Astron. (new ed.) xvi. 519 In 1803..thousands of stones were scattered by the explosion into fragments of a large fiery globe over a region of twenty or thirty square miles.

†d. figurative. A unified or perfect body. Obsolete.In some cases perhaps influenced by sense 2.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole > an organized or collective whole

altogethereOE

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?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. B 4 This globe of bewtie wherin all might see An after world of wonders here in mee.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 42 In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best exemples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 38 No sooner did the force of so much united excellence meet in one globe of brightnesse and efficacy, but encountring the dazl'd resistance of tyranny, they gave not over..till they had laid her groveling upon the fatall block.

2. A spherical representation of the earth with its map on the surface, esp. one which is fixed to a stand and may be rotated on a vertical (or near-vertical) axis (more fully terrestrial globe: see terrestrial adj. 2d); a similar representation of the stars and constellations (celestial globe: see celestial adj. 1).The terrestrial and celestial globes were formerly included under the name of the globes, esp. in the phrase (to learn, teach) the use of the globes.artificial, terraqueous globe: see first element.

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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > representational device > [noun] > globe, sphere

spherec1400

globe1542

the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > globe

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meridian1592

microcosm1606

artificial globe1625

1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Archimedes Some do suppose, that he [sc. Archimedes] fyrste inuented the makynge of materiall spheris, and the globe.

1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 114 An objection against the terestriall Globe.

1592 J. Dee Autobiogr. Tracts 28 in Chetham Misc. (1851) I Two globes of Gerardus Mercators best making on which were my divers reformations both geographicall, and celestiall.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 166 A Mappe differs from a Globe, in that the Globe is a round solide body, more neerely representing the true figure of the Earth.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 218 I have observ'd..several magnitudes of Stars less then those of the six magnitudes commonly recounted in the Globes.

1701 Dr. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 329 With arithmetick, and the use of the globes.

1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 14 The celestial and terrestrial globes, the largest that had then ever been printed.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xli. 496 There are two principal modes of representing the stars; the one by delineating them on a globe, where each star occupies a spot in which it would appear to an eye placed in the centre of the globe.

a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xi. 131 I suppose you've been taught music, and the use of globes, and French, and all the usual accomplishments.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. iv. 26 He turned to that huge globe whereon were marked all discoveries of moment concerning the origin of modern Man, annotated in his own neat handwriting.

1972 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 82 p. iv (advt.) Equatorially mounted Celestial Globe (W. & A. K. Johnston)—Mahogany stand with Compass.

2007 Collect it! Jan. 50/3 A novelty item, the globe was hinged, the inside being printed with a celestial map and containing maps for colouring and a supply of crayons.

a. the (also this) globe: the earth. Also the globe of (the) earth, the globe of the world, the earthly globe, and similar phrases. Cf. ball n.¹ 4.

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the world > the earth > [noun]

all the worldeOE

mouldOE

worldOE

earthOE

earthricheOE

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worldricheOE

motherOE

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mound?a1300

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lower worlda1398

the whole worlda1513

orba1550

the (also this) globe1553

the earthly globe1553

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the glimpses of the moon1603

universe1630

outer world1661

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Orphic egg1684

Midgard1770

all outdoors1833

Planet Earth1858

overworld1911

Spaceship Earth1966

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aij The hole globe of the world..hath been sayled aboute.

1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Aiij Gods that rule the Skies, The Glope and eke the Element.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 96 We, the Globe, can compasse soone, Swifter then the wandring Moone.

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §192 204 He was the second that circumpassed the earthly globe.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 23/1 The Sun from East to West who all doth see, On this low Glob sees nothing like to thee.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 9 Of this various Matter..the far greatest part of the Terrestrial Globe consists.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 326 I wish..you was..regular in letting me have the pleasure of knowing what passes on your side of the Globe.

1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 219 The same set of manners will follow a nation..over the whole globe.

1769 J. Wesley Jrnl. 8 Sept. (1827) III. 369 The globe of earth..can hardly afford a more pleasing scene.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 261/1 I felt as it were the globe of the world sliding from under my feet;..every thing was reeling around me.

1843 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall (rev. ed.) in Poems (ed. 2) II. 110 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day.

1891 Speaker 2 May 534/1 The harnessing of electricity to the commerce of the globe.

a1910 J. L. Cuthbertson Barwon Ballads & School Verses (1912) 233 The boy to do me justice on this globe Has never yet been born.

1917 D. H. Lawrence Compl. Poems (1993) 272 The gush of spring is strong enough To toss the globe of earth like a ball on a water-jet.

1936 C. Croneis & W. C. Krumbein Down to Earth p. iv [Chapter] 4. We examine the Earth's sources of energy, and follow this energy through the economy of our terrestrial globe.

1959 C. Oliver in Astounding Sci. Fiction June 77/1 One of the screens showed the globe of the Earth far below, blue and green and necklaced with silver clouds.

1969 Indedpendent Rec. (helena, Montana) 3 Oct. 4/1 There is not enough water, air, and land on this earthly globe to absorb all of man's poisons, erosions,..and rearrangings.

2004 Business Week 22 Nov. 127/4 The wind farms would boost the ‘surface drag’ of the earth, changing circulation patterns around the globe.

b. A planet, star, or other celestial object; the sphere or visible disc of the sun, the moon, or a planet.

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the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun]

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1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. D i^v The Sunne contayneth the globe of the Moone 7000 tymes.

?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. S iv b If thou art minded to surpasse al ye globes of the firmament, and see what is there contained.

1595 M. Drayton Endimion & Phœbe sig. F2^v Her richest Globe shee gloriously displayes, Now that the Sun had hid his golden rayes: Least that his radiencie should her suppresse.

a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 307 The Globe of the Moon..is as solid and gibbous as that of this Earth and Water.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. v. xx Those vaste bright Globes..Were made but to attend our little Ball.

a1740 J. Abernethy Disc. Perfections God (1742) II. ii. 57 We cannot take upon us..to judge what the main ends are of those moving globes in our heavens.

1750 T. Wright Orig. Theory Universe 25 Her [sc. the moon's] whole Globe appeared to us very conspicuously within a manifest circle.

1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. i. ii. 119 They judge the Moon to be a Globe like our Earth.

a1811 J. Grahame Poems (1827) 88 Like that untouching cincture which enzones The globe of Saturn.

1840 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1842) V. iv. 56 Supposing a man told that he should suddenly be carried off to some unknown globe in the heavens.

1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 173 With starry globes unnumberable, suns, Planets, and moons.

1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 211 The globe of Mars..bulges, like our Earth, at the equator.

1934 N. R. Jones in Amazing Stories Sept. 13/2 Both supported life—Mars' meager plant and animal life contrasting strangely with the luxuriant vegetation and teeming life..of the Venerian globe.

1993 Harrowsmith Apr. 30/3 When a moon swings close to Jupiter's cloud-banded globe, its motion becomes evident in a few minutes.

1996 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Sept. t9 While most science fiction authors were orbiting distant globes, Ballard focused his gaze closer to home and invented worlds far stranger.

c. Used in the titles of newspapers and periodicals.

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1803 (title) The Globe.

1819 Globe (N.Y.) Jan. 1 In presenting to you the first number of the ‘Globe’, I beg it may be recollected, that it comes before you, as an infant.

1872 (title) Boston Daily Globe.

1903 McGill Univ. Mag. Dec. 13 Our attention has been called to an article in the Toronto ‘Globe’.

1961 Times 1 Aug. 13/6 The ‘Daily Globe’ of Deadline Midnight is among the most scurrilously offensive of tabloids.

1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 May a24/5 These are not the ‘retired ornithologist seeks same’ personals you find in The Globe.

4. The golden orb carried as part of a monarch's regalia, esp. considered as an emblem of sovereignty.

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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > orb

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1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones 262 To set the Crowne..vpon mine head; to put the scepter of righteousnesse, the globe of glorie, and the sword of thy power into mine hands.

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 158 In Christianitie there is now appropriated to supreme Princes a Globe, and an infixt Crosse.

1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence i. i. sig. C If I had beene the heire Of all the Globes and Scepters mankind bowes to, At my best you had deserv'd me.

1688 London Gaz. No. 2309/3 At the reading of the Gospel the Emperor stood up, holding his Scepter in one Hand, and the Globe in the other.

1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 156/1 The globe and cross..shew him to have been a..King.

1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 39 The globe and sceptre in such hands misplaced, Those ensigns of dominion, how disgraced!

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxxv. 188 With crown, with sceptre, and with globe, Emblems of empery.

1862 J. C. Robertson Hist. Christian Church (new ed.) II. 708 He was persuaded to surrender the ensigns of his power—the cross and the lance, the crown, the sceptre, and the globe.

1964 J. Wieners Ace of Pentacles 32 Sceptre, and pole, cross and globe at her left.

1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 July a12 The 10-metre bronze statue, depicting the czar at his coronation holding a globe and sceptre, is painted shining gold.

5. Anatomy. globe of the eye (also ocular globe) the eyeball, usually excluding the muscles and other tissue attached to it.

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the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > eyeball

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1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 551 Proceeding forward it is dilated and embraceth the whole globe of the eye euen to the roote.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 162 The globe [of a fish's eye]..is furnished behind with a muscle, which serves to lengthen or flatten it, according to the necessities of the animal.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 510/2 It [sc. the tissue] abounds..around the globe of the eye.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 54 The globe of the eye consists of two segments, the anterior of which is more or less conical.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 468 Three females and one male..were admitted for enucleation of wasted globes.

1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Ocular globe, the eyeball after the separation of its muscles and outer connections.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1309 The eye may be compared to a globular camera. The sensitive plate is the innermost layer or retina... Occupying the front of the globe is the biconvex lens.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 21 360 The left globe was ruptured posteriorly and proptosed down and out. There was total disorganisation of intra-ocular structures of the left eye with no light perception elicited.

1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. iv. 23/2 Debris of a white, cheesy nature can occasionally be noted between the third eyelid (nictitating membrane) and the globe, usually indicating a conjunctival infection.

1998 Times 25 June 22/4 If the globe of the eye is missing, the orbit will fail to develop properly and the baby's face will be distorted.

a. A glass vessel of approximately spherical shape; esp. (a) a lampshade; (b) a vessel filled with water, used for displaying ornamental fish, a model scene (cf. also snowstorm n. 2), etc., or as a lens.fish-, gas-, mirror, water-globe, etc.: see first element.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > other lenses

concave1632

globe1653

meniscus1693

hemispherule1696

convex1705

omphaloptic1728

omphalopter1738

crown lens1764

achromatic1785

condenser1798

meniscus lens1820

Fresnel lens1835

bull's-eye1839

Stanhope lens1850

spot lens1860

amplifier1866

achromat1873

projectora1884

aplanat1890

triplet condenser1892

Aldis lens1902

monocentric1922

Schmidt correcting plate1934

coated lens1948

Panavision1955

Schmidt correcting lens1961

re-imaging1962

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > shade for

shade1780

globe1796

moonshade1830

abat-jour1844

lampshade1850

bell-shade1890

lightshade1912

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > zoo > [noun] > aquarium > fish bowl > for exhibiting fish

globe1873

1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations lx. 378 A certain Glass-globe, which is almost filled up with clear water, wherein several Glass-balls which are fraught with nothing but Air, do swim upon the surface of that water.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. E A pretty large Globe of Glass,..fill'd with exceeding clear Brine.

1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 142 The Globes..must be made of very thick white Glass.

1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 10 I met a post chaise and four on the turnpike road: it had globes with lights in them.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 179 This instrument consists of a very strong glass tube..and ends in a globe of 1.2 or 1.3 inch in diameter.

1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 652 The light, after passing through the globe, may fall directly on the block.

1873 B. Stewart Conservation of Energy i. 8 A glass globe containing numerous gold-fish.

1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 469/1 New lampshades..decorated the globes of the moderator-lamps.

1933 San Antonio (Texas) Express 8 Feb. 7/3 When Joan shook the globe the snowflakes flurried and scurried inside the ball, falling on the little church and the people.

1942 Amer. Speech 17 284/1 He also saw on his rambles a Terrarium—a covered glass globe or fish-tank containing flowers and plants to be grown indoors during the winter.

2003 Casa Grande (Arizona) Dispatch 2 Dec. 15/1 Simply fill the globe with water, arrange the flowers in the base, and seal it shut.

b. A light bulb. Also more fully light globe

Brit.

/ˈlʌɪt ɡləʊb/

U.S.

/ˈlaɪt ˌɡloʊb/

Australian English

/ˈlɑet ɡloʊb/

South African English

/ˈlaɪt ɡləʊb/

West African English

/ˈlait ˌɡlob/

. Now chiefly Australian, South African, and West African.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of > light bulb

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globe1898

lamp-bulb1911

1898 Gleanings Bee Culture 1 Dec. 893/1 The one little globe made everything plain and distinct,..for it is 16 candle-power, and yet these globes cost now only 14 or 15 cents, and each one will run 1000 hours.

1899 ‘R. Devereux’ Side Lights S. Afr. 147 An endless stretch of sad grey fields, surrounded by high walls of barbed wire, topped by huge electric light globes.

1932 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Jan. 17/2 Sentenced to imprisonment for 14 days for having been in possession of an electric light globe which it was suspected had been stolen.

1971 A. Bamgboṣe in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 43 Globe, electric bulb. (We had no light because she broke the globe.)

1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1989) 342 He did not want to tear himself away from his vision, lightglobes flashing occasionally as gusts scattered the screen of leaves.

1998 J. Mau Sci. Austral. II. viii. 183 Build a circuit with two switches and an electric globe so that the globe lights when either one (or both) of the switches is closed.

2012 Mail & Guardian (S. Afr.) (Electronic ed.) 23 Nov. (heading) An offer of free LED globes is one way in which the power utility is trying to reduce consumption.

†7. Military.

a. A kind of grenade. Obsolete. rare.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade

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hand grenade1637

bag-granado1638

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petrol bomb1903

rifle grenade1909

hairbrush1916

Mills1916

pineapple bomb1916

stick grenade1917

fragmentation bomb1918

pineapple1918

potato-masher grenade1925

spitball1925

Molotov cocktail1940

sticky bomb1940

stick-bomb1941

red devila1944

stun grenade1977

flash-bang1982

1672 tr. Compleat Gunner iii. ix. 7 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii There is given to these sort of Globes the names of Granadoes.

1672 tr. Compleat Gunner iii. xiii. 10 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii Stinking Globes are made to annoy the Enemy.

1745 J. Spateman War 23 A hundred pregnant Bombs, the while, Their cursed Globes, with Death and Mischief fraught, Discharge.

b. globe of compression [apparently after French globe de compression (although this is apparently only recorded later in dictionaries of French (1802), but see quot. 1838)] : an overcharged mine, the explosion of which produces a crater of greater radius than depth. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine

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observation mine1886

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1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 21/1 The firing of the globe of compression was to be the signal for the attack.

1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 263/2 Globe of Compression, a name given by Belidor to mines in which the highest charges of powder are employed... They were first employed by the King of Prussia, in 1762, at the siege of Schweidnitz.

1855 Times 3 Oct. 10/2 His mines, if any existed, might have been destroyed by globes of compression.

1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Globe of compression, an exploded military mine in which the crater-radius is greater than the line of least resistance.

8. A woman's breast. Usually in plural. Now slang.Sometimes simply by metaphorical extension.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun]

titOE

breastOE

mammaOE

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udder1702

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breastwork?1760

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snows1803

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Charleys1874

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jug1957

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Bristols1961

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nork1962

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jubblies1991

a1727 W. Pattison Cupid's Metamorph. (1728) 52 Your flowing Vest Disclos'd the naked Wonders of your Breast, How meltingly the snowy Globes arose!

c1890 My Secret Life III. xvii. 284 I burst off a button or two, which exposed her breast, and getting my hand on to one of the globes began feeling and kissing it.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 457 He said he had seen from the gods my peerless globes.

1984 T. Robbins Jitterbug Perfume 57 ‘I resent that,’ said Sheila Gomez, glancing at the little crucifix that dangled its gold-skinned heels above her globes.

2007 Sunday Tribune (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 7 Oct. 19 [Her] ‘unnaturally round’ globes.

9. Medicine. = globus n. More fully hysteric globe. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria

mother?c1450

rising of the motherc1450

suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550

strangulation of the matrix or womb1601

hysterica passio1603

hysterical passion1623

hysteric passion1655

rising of the matrix1660

hystericism1710

globus hystericus1741

globe1751

hysteria1757

globus1833

pseudorabies1892

1751 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. 439 Then they feel a sort of a Globe arise from the lower Part of the Belly to the Hyphochondria and Diaphragm.

1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville I. x. 274 Poor Constantia, who knew not what hysterical affections were, thought the globe rising in the throat to be symptomatic of approaching dissolution.

1841 W. H. Christie Love Story II. xv. 231 Delmé tried to speak, but his tongue clove to his mouth, and the hysteric globe rose to his throat.

1905 G. B. Shaw Irrational Knot vi. 124 Marian felt the hysteric globe at her throat as she tried to speak.

10. Golf. A golf ball. Chiefly in to miss the globe.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > ball

golf ball1545

globe1862

1862 R. Chambers Few Rambling Remarks Golf 23 Every beginner, from over-anxiety, ‘misses the globe’ the first shot.

1874 Glasgow News 21 Sept. Began my game by missing what is called ‘the globe’ altogether.

1923 J. Agate At Half-past Eight 192 My eye, scorning the diminutive, dimpled globe resting on the tee, would wander.

1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Oct. (Sport section) 4 The men who fail to count a stroke when they miss the globe; the men who never replace a divot.

†II. Other senses.

11. A compact body (of people or celestial beings). Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster > compact body of people or animals

sop?a1400

plump?a1425

globe1610

phalanx1654

noyau1965

1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 71 Out there flies A globe of winged Angels, swift as thought.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 512 Him round A Globe of fierie Seraphim inclos'd.

1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 113 The Bashkirs collected into ‘globes’ and ‘turms’, as their only means of meeting the long lines of descending Chinese cavalry.

1850 S. Mills Day Pencilings Light & Shade 17 That shining globe of Angels rise,..Upmounting to their native skies.

Compounds

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a. Objective.

globe-engirdling adj.

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1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 8 Globe-engirdling Drake, the Nauall Palme that wonne.

1994 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 9 Nov. a20 Even the globe-engirdling British empire was gone.

globe-girding adj.

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1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 76 The alps' globe-girding chain.

1953 O. Knight Fort Worth (1990) 220 The Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant which makes the globe-girding B-36 bombers.

2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Apr. h1 Some globe-girding cruise lines offer similar itineraries every year, while others pride themselves on including new and obscure ports of call.

globe-girdling adj.

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1875 Temple Bar June 255 A somewhat old-fashioned house, not working any of your globe-girdling speculative gigantic operations.

1943 Amer. Mag. Mar. 98/1 A network of globe-girdling airways.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Feb. 14/1 Teddy Roosevelt's new swashbuckling, globe-girdling kind of presidency.

globe maker n.

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1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. Alphabet. Table sig. eee 2 Map-makers and Globe-makers, create Lands and Ilands at pleasure.

1704 J. Flamsteed Let. 15 Nov. in I. Newton Corr. (1967) IV. 427 Bayers mapps which our Globemakers Copy are all false.

1878 C. H. Coote in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. 98 It was a ‘new map’ on a new projection made by one of the most eminent globe-makers of his time.

1995 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 19 Oct. Recently, when some European countries' borders changed, globe makers met world demand for corrected globes.

globe-making n.

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1766 B. Martin App. Descr. & Use Globes i. 7 Who but a Person most miserably unskilled in the Art and Mystery of Globe-Making could ever assert so gross a Falsehood.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 986/2 In the history of globe-making, the name of Ferguson, the mathematician, has an honourable place.

1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 7 You will not find a better example of globemaking elsewhere in the world.

b. Parasynthetic.

globe-cheeked adj.

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1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 18 Around the altar prance and pace Globe-cheekit Fun.

2005 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 61 That's not to say that these globe-cheeked creatures [sc. hamsters] wouldn't enjoy a spot of open-air foraging.

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globe amaranth n. any of several amaranths of the central and South American genus Gomphrena (family Amaranthaceae); spec. G. globosa, an annual widely grown for its compact, easily dried flower heads, which are purple in the native plant and in various other colours in cultivars.

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1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. Index Amaranth Globe. [to signify Globe amaranth] see Amaranthoides.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 5/2 No. 179. Everlasting Flower (Xeranthemum annuum—Annuals, some with purple, others with white, flowers... The dry leaves of the calyx retain their form and color for years, like the globe amaranth.

1913 Indiana Weekly Messenger 12 July Globe amaranth, rhodanthe and helichrysum are three good everlasting flowers to plant.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 116 Globe Amaranth. Half-hardy annual useful for edging borders with unusual spherical heads of flowers that can be dried and used as everlasting flowers.

globe amaranthus n. = globe amaranth n.

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1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) I Amarantoides, Globe Amaranthus or Everlasting Flower.

1846 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 136 118 Instances of this bleaching action have been given in the juices of Globe amaranthus and Plumbago auriculata.

1931 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 7 Feb. (Mag. section) 4 Bachelor buttons... to you it may be..the Globe Amaranthus.

2008 Food Service Director (Nexis) 15 June 24 Here, I featured..day lilies in several shades of red, from pink to burgundy [and] a pink globe amaranthus.

† globe animal n. Obsolete = globe-animalcule n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > subclass Flagellidia > [noun] > order Phytoflagellida > specific members of genus Volvox

globe animal1753

gimlet1770

glutton1770

1753 H. Baker Employment for Microscope ii. xiii. 322 (heading) The globe animal.

1806 P. Wakefield Domest. Recreat. vi. 92 The globe animal, so named on account of its form, which is like a round ball without any appearance of head, tail, or fins.

† globe-animalcule n. Obsolete a globular colony of the minute chlorophyte Volvox (originally thought to be a single organism).

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?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. I Globe animalcule. This very singular, minute, aquatic animal, whose shape seems to be exactly globular, without either head, tail, or fins, was first discovered by the ingenious Baker, in his microscopical experiments.

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 275 This little cell, so well known to the older observers as the globe-animalcule or revolving-cell.

globe artichoke n. = artichoke n. 1.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > stalk vegetables > [noun] > artichokes

artichoke1531

cardoon1594

cactus1607

globe artichoke1763

Chinese artichoke1891

Japanese artichoke1902

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > artichokes

artichoke1531

ground-thistle1591

cardoon1594

cactus1607

sherdoon1661

Spanish cardon1699

globe artichoke1763

Chinese artichoke1891

Japanese artichoke1902

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 49 This size is the more surprizing, as that species never spreads near so much as our globe artichoke.

1882 Garden 11 Mar. 169/3 Now is a good time to make plantations of Globe Artichokes.

1959 Home Encycl. 44 Cardoons. A kind of thistle grown in Europe and America, and a close relation of the globe artichoke.

1995 R. Gray & R. Rogers River Cafe Cook Bk. (1996) i. 49 Prepare the globe artichokes by removing the tough outer leaves, then cut off the tops of the leaves.

† globe-billed curassow adj. Obsolete rare the great curassow, Crax rubra, which has a yellow knob on the bill.

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1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Globe-billed curassow, in Ornithology, the Crax globicera of Linnæus, a native of Guiana.

globe cock n. = globe valve n.

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1869 U.S. Patent 47,565 1/1 I..have invented a new and useful Improvement in Globe-Cocks.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 988/1 Globe-cock, formerly a sphere with a stem by which it was moved..now a circular disk of similar use, and retaining the name.

2005 Independent (Nexis) 20 July 6 We are replacing the rusted taps with a pair of new globe cocks which will fill the bath rapidly.

globe crowfoot n. now rare = globeflower n.

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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 810 The globe flower is called..in English Globe Crowfoote, Troll flowers, and Lockron gowlons.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 69/2 The Caper, is a flower like the Crowfoot, or Globe Crowfoot.

1792 in Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) (ed. 4) I. 72 In that tour he [sc. Linnaeus] found that his horses left untouched..mountain and globe crowfoot, cranesbill, yellow wolfsbane, and several shrubs.

1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 16 Our gardeners know it by the name of Globe Ranunculus, or Globe Crowfoot; and it is the Lucken gowan of the Scotch.

1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal I. 358 Globe Flower... Synonyms. Globe Trollius. Boule d'Or. European Globe Flower. Globe Ranunculus. Globe Crowfoot. Lucken-Gowans.

globe-daisy n. now rare a perennial, herbaceous plant, Globularia trichosantha (also known as G. vulgaris) (family Plantaginaceae), found in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean, and grown elsewhere for its round, daisy-like bluish-violet flowers and evergreen, ground-covering leaves.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > other flowers

spring flowera1586

globe-daisy1597

sceptre-flower1866

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 512 The blewe Daisie is called..in English blew Daisies and Globe Daisie.

1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Globe Daisy, or Blue Daisy, is Globularia & Bellis cœrulea, which see.

1956 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 15 A Witch Gowan can be a Globe-Daisy.

globe dial n. a sundial in the form of a globe.

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1625 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 183 For gilding and working y^e globe dialls £3.

1737 C. Leadbetter Mechanick Dialling p. vi. To Rdr. Plain and easy Directions for making of Reflective, Refractive, and Globe Dials.

1845 W. A. Nesfield in Garden Hist. (1987) 15 147 Central grass plot having a mound..surmounted by a gilded globe Dial, or some other conspicuously large sculpted object.

2005 M. Lennox-Boyd Sundials 74 (caption) It is a globe dial and is in effect a reproduction of the earth itself.

globe fennel n. rare = Florence fennel n. at Florence n.¹ Additions.

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1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 190 Smooth Globe-Fennel.

2006 ‘The Gardiner’ ontheplot.blogspot.com 30 Oct. (blog, accessed 16 June 2008) The Globe Fennel is looking healthy.

globe fish n. any of various fishes that have (or can assume) a near-spherical or very stout form, esp. one of the family Tetraodontidae or Diodontidae, which assume this shape by inflation; a porcupine fish or puffer fish.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish)

globe fish1668

sea-orb1774

Tetrodon1774

puff-fish1807

puffer1814

swell-fish1839

rabbitfish1842

tambour1854

swallow1876

blaasop1902

toado1943

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of

toad-fish1612

globe fish1668

sculpin1672

sea-hedgehog1711

sea-orb1774

puff-fish1807

puffer1814

balloonfish1834

swell-fish1839

tambour1854

swallow1876

blaasop1947

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. 142 Fishes of a hard crustaceous skin..Sphærical..[as] Orbis Scutatus, Globe-fish.

1736 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 113 Orbis lævis variegatus: The Glob-Fish.

1884–5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 289 Tetrodontidæ..have received numerous popular names, such as swell-fish, bottle-fish, bellows-fish, egg-fish, globe-fish..etc.

1992 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (1994) ii. 36 The puffer fish and other members of the family Tetraodontoidea [sic], such as the globe fish and the porcupine fish, contain the deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin.

globeflower n. any of several plants of the genus Trollius (family Ranunculaceae) whose petals form a compact, round, typically yellow flower head; esp. T. europaeus, which occurs locally in Europe and arctic America.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers

githa1382

nigellaa1398

gollana1400

pilewort?a1425

gold-knop1538

fig-wort1548

lucken gowan1548

melanthion1559

gold crap1571

bachelor's buttons1578

celandine1578

gold cup1578

Goldilocks1578

nigel1578

nigelweed1578

troll flower1578

peppergrass1587

golden cup1589

globe crowfoot1597

globeflower1597

winter aconite1597

kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664

devil-in-a-bush1722

globe ranunculus1731

turban1760

love-in-a-mist1787

love-in-a-puzzle1824

fair-grass1825

water buttercup1831

golden knobs1835

ficary1848

New Year's gift1856

bishop wort1863

fennel-flower1863

golden ball1875

1597Globe flower [see globe crowfoot n.].

1664 S. Blake Compl. Gardeners Pract. 40 (heading) Globe-flower.

1806 B. McMahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 606 Hardy Perennial and Biennial Fibrous Rooted Flowering Plants... Trollius asiaticus. Asiatic Globe-flower.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 832 They are ‘flower-oases’, mostly with low-growers..but occasionally with more ambitious types like globe-flower, Jacob's ladder, larkspur, and ragwort.

2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Mag. section) 54/1 We often walked up onto the mountains to see things such as wild orchids or globeflowers, which were objects of pilgrimage for my mother.

globe lamp n. a lamp in which the light source is protected by a globe of glass.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame > protected by specific object

globe lantern1717

globe lamp1739

globe light1749

gauze-lamp1877

1739 Proc. Sessions of Peace June 90/1 I saw him bring a Globe Lamp in his Apron into the Room.

1825 H. Wilson Mem. IV. 67 This room..was lighted by large, ground-glass, French globe-lamps, suspended from the cieling.

1897 Daily News 7 Jan. 6/7 The boatswain was taking a globe lamp into the forepeak.

1995 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 27 Oct. 1 b Concrete booths and..wooden tables overlook the dance floor from terraces lighted by globe lamps atop stone pillars.

globe lantern n. = globe lamp n.; (also) a spherical paper lantern.

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1717 W. Sutherland Prices Labour in Ship-building 255 (table) Upright globe lanterns.

1851 J. G. Bruff Jrnl. 17 July in Gold Rush (1944) II. v. 996 I..slept very soundly, notwithstanding a large brilliant globe lantern near the door of my state-room.

1898 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 2/6 The effect was satisfactorily Oriental when the huge colored globe lanterns..were lighted.

2002 This is Wilts. (Nexis) 6 Feb. The globe lantern on the pedestrian refuge was replaced by a conventional street light.

2006 Hollywood Reporter 2 May 40/1 Han Feng's gorgeous costumes combine with globe lanterns and multitudes of flowers to fill the stage with color.

globe light n. = globe lamp n.

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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame > protected by specific object

globe lantern1717

globe lamp1739

globe light1749

gauze-lamp1877

1749 W. Hopley Catal. Househ.-furnit. J. Gilchrist 8 Two globe lights.

1849 Times 21 Feb. 8 A small gas pipe communicates with the globe light.

1971 Gourmet Feb. 12/1 To reach the small bar and restaurant, one..goes down a paneled corridor..illuminated by antique glass globe lights.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 5 May 38/1 Giant globe lights and pressed-tin ceilings.

globe lightning n. = ball lightning n. at ball n.¹ Compounds 2.

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1859 G. A. Rowell Ess. on Cause of Rain Contents p.viii Globe lightning, 394.

1900 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 21 282 It is what is technically called ‘ball-lightning’ or ‘globe-lightning’, and when seen near at hand appears like a falling ball of fire.

1997 Providence (R. I.) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 24 June 1 a Ball lightning, also known as globe lightning, is a relatively rare form of lighting consisting of a reddish luminous ball about one foot in diameter.

† globe-loadstone n. Obsolete rare a spherical magnet.

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1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 170 Not to mention how hard a thing it is; first, to find the two Polary points in a Globe-Loadstone [etc.].

globemallow n. any of various plants of the North American genus Sphaeralcea (family Malvaceae), found in arid areas and typically bearing small cup-shaped flowers and spherical fruit; frequently with distinguishing word.

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1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 336/2 S[phæralcea] Cisplatina, the Cisplatine globe-mallow.

1924 A. W. Sampson Native Amer. Forage Plants xvii. 395 Some species of the..globe mallow (Sphaeralcea)..are similar in forage value to the wild hollyhocks.

1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 141 One species..visits the brick-red flowers of scarlet globe mallow.

2008 Las Vegas (Nevada) Rev.-Jrnl. (Nexis) 2 Mar. 3 k Globemallow is the favorite plant of the desert tortoise.

globe ranunculus n. now rare = globeflower n.

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githa1382

nigellaa1398

gollana1400

pilewort?a1425

gold-knop1538

fig-wort1548

lucken gowan1548

melanthion1559

gold crap1571

bachelor's buttons1578

celandine1578

gold cup1578

Goldilocks1578

nigel1578

nigelweed1578

troll flower1578

peppergrass1587

golden cup1589

globe crowfoot1597

globeflower1597

winter aconite1597

kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664

devil-in-a-bush1722

globe ranunculus1731

turban1760

love-in-a-mist1787

love-in-a-puzzle1824

fair-grass1825

water buttercup1831

golden knobs1835

ficary1848

New Year's gift1856

bishop wort1863

fennel-flower1863

golden ball1875

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Helleboro-Ranunculus, Globe-Ranunculus vulgô.

1800 Catal. Garden, Grass & Flower Seeds (Russell, Russell & Willmott) 24/2 Yellow globe ranunculus.

1900 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod & Gun xi. 184 My mind recalls pictures of Loch Awe in the late spring, when the large globe ranunculus is in flower.

globe sight n. a front sight for a rifle, pistol, etc., in the form of a ball or disc.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of

dispart1578

telescopic sight1674

plain sight1686

aim-frontlet1745

hausse1787

foresight1806

gloaming sight1817

night-sight1822

bead1831

leaf1832

backsight1847

globe sight1847

pendulum hausse1850

hindsight1851

tangent scale1859

tangent1861

tangent backsight1862

training pendulum1862

training level1863

peep sight1866

dispart-sight1867

notch sight1867

buck-horn1877

orthoptic1881

aperturea1884

pinball-sighta1884

dispart patch1884

sight bar1884

flap-sight1887

barley-corn1896

ring sight1901

riflescope1902

spotting scope1904

tangent sight1908

Aldis sight1918

wind-sight1923

scope sight1934

gyro-sight1942

1847 Sandusky (Ohio) Clarion 23 Mar. (advt.) His rifles, with improved twist, raised and globe sights, are warranted to carry with accuracy from sixty to one hundred rods.

1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 367/1 At this short distance you don't care for the peep and globe sights.

2003 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Mar. 1 d Cale mounted a circular ‘globe sight’ to the business end of the barrel and an adjustable ‘ghost ring’ sight near the receiver.

† globe-slater n. Obsolete an isopod crustacean of the genus Sphaeroma, which can roll up in a manner resembling that of a pill woodlouse.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of genus Sphaeroma

sea-pill-ball1850

globe-slater1869

1869 W. S. Dallas tr. F. Müller Facts & Arguments for Darwin viii. 72 This applies also to the Box-Slaters (Idothea), to the viviparous Globe-Slaters (Sphæroma) and Shield-Slaters (Cassidina).

1890 Cent. Dict. Sphæroma, the typical genus of Sphæromidæ... They are known as globe-slaters.

globe thistle n. any of numerous thistles constituting the Old World genus Echinops (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), which bear rounded spiky flower heads composed of many different capitula.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles

thistlec725

carduea1398

wolf's-thistlea1400

cardoona1425

wolf-thistle1526

cotton-thistle1548

gum-thistle1548

oat thistle1548

black chameleon1551

ixia1551

Saint Mary thistle1552

milk thistle1562

cow-thistle1565

bedeguar1578

carline1578

silver thistle1578

white chameleon1578

globe thistle1582

ball thistle1597

down thistle1597

friar's crown1597

lady's thistle1597

gummy thistle1598

man's blood1601

musk thistle1633

melancholy thistle1653

Scotch thistle1660

boar-thistle1714

spear- thistle1753

gentle thistle1760

woolly thistle1760

wool-thistle1769

bur-thistlea1796

Canada thistle1796

pine thistle1807

plume thistle1814

melancholy plume thistle1825

woolly-headed thistle1843

dog thistle1845

dwarf thistle1846

welted thistle1846

pixie glove1858

Mexican thistle1866

Syrian thistle1866

bull thistle1878

fish belly1878

fish-bone-thistle1882

green thistle1882

herringbone thistle1884

Californian thistle1891

winged thistle1915

fish-thistles-

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xxxvi. f. 285 Spina peregrins, the Gloabe Thistle, or the Oate Thistle.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 125 And he that inquireth into the little bottome of the globe-thistle, may finde that gallant bush arise from a scalpe of like disposure.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 406 Common Globe-thistle is so called from the flowers growing in globular heads.

1949 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 18 62/2 They also marked bees foraging upon three patches of globe thistle (Echinops sphaerocephalus).

2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xxv. 602 The globe thistles, Echinops, have taken the composite trick of flower condensation one step further.

globe tulip n. a mariposa lily (genus Calochortus), spec. one with nodding globular flowers and native to woodland in California and Mexico.

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1897 M. Parsons Wild Flowers Calif. 54 White Globe-Tulip. Calochortus albus.

1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 222 Calochortus,... Globe-Tulip... About 60 cormous plants of W. N. Amer.

1995 C. Brickell Garden Plants 148/1 One of the most exciting, if not always tractable, genera of bulbs to grow is Calochortus, known colloquially as Cat's Ears, Fairy Lanterns and Mariposa or Globe Tulips.

globe valve n. (originally) a valve enclosed in a spherical chamber or having a spherical body; (in later use) one in which fluid flow is controlled by a movable spindle that can be raised or lowered over a fixed seat.

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1855 U.S. Patent 12,966 1/1 These drawings represent a common globe-valve internally the same as in common use.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 988/1 Globe-valve, 1. A ball-valve, one of a spherical shape... 2. A valve inclosed in a globular chamber.

1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines xxv. 433 Figure 340 is the starter used on the Fairbanks-Morse vertical engines. When the engine is in operation, a globe valve in the air line..is closed, cutting off the air.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 22/4 I..became the only living expert who could conjugate irregular Latin verbs and strip down a Hopkinson globe valve, such is my belief in the holistic nature of knowledge.

Derivatives

ˈglobelike adj.

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1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 86 A Globe-like head, a Gold-like haier.

a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 102 Unto Vesta,..they built Temples of a round form globelike.

1798 C. Palmer Treat. Sci. Heliogr. iii. 35 Both water and air are globules or globelike particles.

1854 Poultry Chron. 1 476/1 His wonderful globe-like body is so striking.

1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 34 A globe-like swelling forms, called an oak gall or apple.

2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation vi. 332 She pointed to a cluster of tall purple flower balls, perfectly round and globelike on their thick stems.

ˈglobewise adv.

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1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vi. f. 36^v The head not aslope cornered, but rounde and globewyse fashioned [L. sed in globi figuram rotundum], the hayre of fayre aburne or chesten colour.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. F7 [Artichokes] somewhat resemble Pine-apples, consisting of many skales, compacted Globe-wise.

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 192 In the Orangerie were..two pair of Mirtles in Cases, cut Globe-wise.

1994 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 11 Dec. They say it's probably the most-watched program on TV, globewise.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	globe
释义	globen. Brit. /ɡləʊb/, U.S. /ɡloʊb/ Forms: late Middle English– globe, 1500s gloabe, 1500s glope, 1600s–1700s glob; Scottish pre-1700 glob, pre-1700 gloib, pre-1700 gloube, pre-1700 1700s– globe. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin globus. Etymology: < classical Latin globus compact mass of spherical shape, sphere of a celestial object, spherical structure depicting the arrangement of the constellations, dense mass (of vapour, fire, etc.), closely packed throng of soldiers or other people or of animals, band, clique, mass (of things), in post-classical Latin also eye or eyeball (4th or 5th cent.), orb (14th cent. in a British source), cannonball (16th cent. in British and continental sources), perhaps < an ablaut variant (o -grade) of the same Indo-European base as classical Latin glēba glebe n. Compare Middle French, French globe spherical or near-spherical body (1552; earlier in sense ‘roll (of fabric)’ (14th cent. in an isolated attestation)), spherical structure on which is depicted a map of the world (17th cent.), total mass of something (a1630). Compare also Spanish globo (c1440), Portuguese globo (1537), Italian globo (a1292).With branch II. compare earlier glub n.¹ With the globe of (the) earth at sense 3a compare Middle French, French globe de la terre (1552). With the form glob compare earlier glub n.¹ I. Senses relating to a sphere. 1. a. A spherical or rounded body; a roundish formation. Cf. sphere n. 9a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > sphere > spherical or globular object trendlea900 appleeOE ballc1300 roundc1330 bowl1413 rotundity?a1425 spherea1425 pomec1440 globec1450 orba1500 rotund1550 roundel1589 pompom1748 c1450 Alphabet of Tales 323 As he [sc. St Martin] was at mes, a byrnyng globe aperid abown his head. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Typhonae, be certayne impressions in the ayre lyke globes of fyre or dartes. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. Def. But in a Globe, (whiche is a bodie rounde as a bowle) there is but one platte forme, and one bounde. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 15 A diameter of a sphere, or globe, is any lyne drawen thorowe the same, goyng by the center of the sphere, or globe. 1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D The fume..mounts..In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 79 The outward roofe is divided into foure globes, covered with leade. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §18 All those particles were not at first Sphærical, because many such little Globes joyned together will not fill up a continued space. 1783 B. Franklin in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 424 The experiment of a vast Globe [sc. a balloon] sent up into the air, much talk'd of here at present. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 155 The other tall [foot-note The Guelder Rose], and throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring Cypress..Her silver globes. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 277 The earth is..not a perfect globe. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iii. iii. 109 Bright golden globes Of fruit, suspended in their own green heaven. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 616 In the form of a globe, round as from a lathe. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars xviii. 248 At each thorn-tip, as the flame licks near, wells out and gathers a milk-pale globe of poison. 1955 R. Carson Edge of Sea iv. 179 These shores are strewn..with the heavy armaments of the whelks, and with the smooth globes of the moon snails. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 13 July 43/2 Try the softball-size tartufo, a globe of ice cream coated in crunchy chocolate with a candied cherry center. †b. In early astronomy: the sphere (sphere n. 2a) occupied by the sun, the moon, or a planet. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > sphere of ancient astronomy > [noun] > of particular body > of sun or moon globe1559 continenta1616 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 41 The Fyre..shal ascend above them, and be next the Globe of the Mone. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Inferiour Inferiour Planets are those which are placed below the Globe of the Sun. †c. A fireball; a meteor. Also more fully fiery globe. Cf. fireball n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > comet or meteor > meteor > [noun] > fireball fiery globe1561 draco volans1663 fireball1686 bolide1852 1561 tr. Hist. Strange Wonders sig. Biiii^v In the. M. D. L. three fyrye globes wer sene in the aire in ye night in Misnia Lipsia, which certaine students & famous men did beholde. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 9^v Of shieldes Globes or Bowles. These Meteores also haue their name of their fashion, because they..appeare to be rounde. 1799 tr. in N. Webster Brief Hist. Epidemic & Pestilential Dis. I. vii. 222 In the beginning of October appeared over the city a blue fiery globe or meteor, which came from the north west. 1861 J. F. W. Herschel Outl. Astron. (new ed.) xvi. 519 In 1803..thousands of stones were scattered by the explosion into fragments of a large fiery globe over a region of twenty or thirty square miles. †d. figurative. A unified or perfect body. Obsolete.In some cases perhaps influenced by sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] > a complex whole > an organized or collective whole altogethereOE body1340 corpse1533 universality1561 globe?1594 orb1603 ensemble1703 organism1768 organity1929 ?1594 M. Drayton Peirs Gaueston sig. B 4 This globe of bewtie wherin all might see An after world of wonders here in mee. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 42 In the discharge of thy place, set before thee the best exemples; for imitation is a globe of precepts. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 38 No sooner did the force of so much united excellence meet in one globe of brightnesse and efficacy, but encountring the dazl'd resistance of tyranny, they gave not over..till they had laid her groveling upon the fatall block. 2. A spherical representation of the earth with its map on the surface, esp. one which is fixed to a stand and may be rotated on a vertical (or near-vertical) axis (more fully terrestrial globe: see terrestrial adj. 2d); a similar representation of the stars and constellations (celestial globe: see celestial adj. 1).The terrestrial and celestial globes were formerly included under the name of the globes, esp. in the phrase (to learn, teach) the use of the globes.artificial, terraqueous globe: see first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > representational device > [noun] > globe, sphere spherec1400 globe1542 the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > map > [noun] > globe globe1542 meridian1592 microcosm1606 artificial globe1625 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca at Archimedes Some do suppose, that he [sc. Archimedes] fyrste inuented the makynge of materiall spheris, and the globe. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 114 An objection against the terestriall Globe. 1592 J. Dee Autobiogr. Tracts 28 in Chetham Misc. (1851) I Two globes of Gerardus Mercators best making on which were my divers reformations both geographicall, and celestiall. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 166 A Mappe differs from a Globe, in that the Globe is a round solide body, more neerely representing the true figure of the Earth. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 218 I have observ'd..several magnitudes of Stars less then those of the six magnitudes commonly recounted in the Globes. 1701 Dr. Wallis in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 329 With arithmetick, and the use of the globes. 1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. i. 14 The celestial and terrestrial globes, the largest that had then ever been printed. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xli. 496 There are two principal modes of representing the stars; the one by delineating them on a globe, where each star occupies a spot in which it would appear to an eye placed in the centre of the globe. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xi. 131 I suppose you've been taught music, and the use of globes, and French, and all the usual accomplishments. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. iv. 26 He turned to that huge globe whereon were marked all discoveries of moment concerning the origin of modern Man, annotated in his own neat handwriting. 1972 Jrnl. Brit. Astron. Assoc. 82 p. iv (advt.) Equatorially mounted Celestial Globe (W. & A. K. Johnston)—Mahogany stand with Compass. 2007 Collect it! Jan. 50/3 A novelty item, the globe was hinged, the inside being printed with a celestial map and containing maps for colouring and a supply of crayons. 3. a. the (also this) globe: the earth. Also the globe of (the) earth, the globe of the world, the earthly globe, and similar phrases. Cf. ball n.¹ 4. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. Aij The hole globe of the world..hath been sayled aboute. 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Aiij Gods that rule the Skies, The Glope and eke the Element. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 96 We, the Globe, can compasse soone, Swifter then the wandring Moone. View more context for this quotation a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §192 204 He was the second that circumpassed the earthly globe. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 23/1 The Sun from East to West who all doth see, On this low Glob sees nothing like to thee. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 9 Of this various Matter..the far greatest part of the Terrestrial Globe consists. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 326 I wish..you was..regular in letting me have the pleasure of knowing what passes on your side of the Globe. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 219 The same set of manners will follow a nation..over the whole globe. 1769 J. Wesley Jrnl. 8 Sept. (1827) III. 369 The globe of earth..can hardly afford a more pleasing scene. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 261/1 I felt as it were the globe of the world sliding from under my feet;..every thing was reeling around me. 1843 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall (rev. ed.) in Poems (ed. 2) II. 110 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day. 1891 Speaker 2 May 534/1 The harnessing of electricity to the commerce of the globe. a1910 J. L. Cuthbertson Barwon Ballads & School Verses (1912) 233 The boy to do me justice on this globe Has never yet been born. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Compl. Poems (1993) 272 The gush of spring is strong enough To toss the globe of earth like a ball on a water-jet. 1936 C. Croneis & W. C. Krumbein Down to Earth p. iv [Chapter] 4. We examine the Earth's sources of energy, and follow this energy through the economy of our terrestrial globe. 1959 C. Oliver in Astounding Sci. Fiction June 77/1 One of the screens showed the globe of the Earth far below, blue and green and necklaced with silver clouds. 1969 Indedpendent Rec. (helena, Montana) 3 Oct. 4/1 There is not enough water, air, and land on this earthly globe to absorb all of man's poisons, erosions,..and rearrangings. 2004 Business Week 22 Nov. 127/4 The wind farms would boost the ‘surface drag’ of the earth, changing circulation patterns around the globe. b. A planet, star, or other celestial object; the sphere or visible disc of the sun, the moon, or a planet. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] candle937 lightOE starsc1225 ballc1300 bodya1398 celestinec1430 heavenly bodya1475 luminair1477 luminary1489 streamer1513 host or hosts of heaven1535 globe1555 orb1565 sphere1598 planet1640 superstar1910 1555 L. Digges Prognostication Right Good Effect sig. D i^v The Sunne contayneth the globe of the Moone 7000 tymes. ?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. S iv b If thou art minded to surpasse al ye globes of the firmament, and see what is there contained. 1595 M. Drayton Endimion & Phœbe sig. F2^v Her richest Globe shee gloriously displayes, Now that the Sun had hid his golden rayes: Least that his radiencie should her suppresse. a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 307 The Globe of the Moon..is as solid and gibbous as that of this Earth and Water. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. v. xx Those vaste bright Globes..Were made but to attend our little Ball. a1740 J. Abernethy Disc. Perfections God (1742) II. ii. 57 We cannot take upon us..to judge what the main ends are of those moving globes in our heavens. 1750 T. Wright Orig. Theory Universe 25 Her [sc. the moon's] whole Globe appeared to us very conspicuously within a manifest circle. 1755 B. Martin Mag. Arts & Sci. i. ii. 119 They judge the Moon to be a Globe like our Earth. a1811 J. Grahame Poems (1827) 88 Like that untouching cincture which enzones The globe of Saturn. 1840 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1842) V. iv. 56 Supposing a man told that he should suddenly be carried off to some unknown globe in the heavens. 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 173 With starry globes unnumberable, suns, Planets, and moons. 1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 211 The globe of Mars..bulges, like our Earth, at the equator. 1934 N. R. Jones in Amazing Stories Sept. 13/2 Both supported life—Mars' meager plant and animal life contrasting strangely with the luxuriant vegetation and teeming life..of the Venerian globe. 1993 Harrowsmith Apr. 30/3 When a moon swings close to Jupiter's cloud-banded globe, its motion becomes evident in a few minutes. 1996 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Sept. t9 While most science fiction authors were orbiting distant globes, Ballard focused his gaze closer to home and invented worlds far stranger. c. Used in the titles of newspapers and periodicals. ΚΠ 1803 (title) The Globe. 1819 Globe (N.Y.) Jan. 1 In presenting to you the first number of the ‘Globe’, I beg it may be recollected, that it comes before you, as an infant. 1872 (title) Boston Daily Globe. 1903 McGill Univ. Mag. Dec. 13 Our attention has been called to an article in the Toronto ‘Globe’. 1961 Times 1 Aug. 13/6 The ‘Daily Globe’ of Deadline Midnight is among the most scurrilously offensive of tabloids. 1994 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 May a24/5 These are not the ‘retired ornithologist seeks same’ personals you find in The Globe. 4. The golden orb carried as part of a monarch's regalia, esp. considered as an emblem of sovereignty. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > regalia > [noun] > orb spherea1387 pomec1440 ballc1475 mound1488 globe1582 orb1602 tut1674 1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones 262 To set the Crowne..vpon mine head; to put the scepter of righteousnesse, the globe of glorie, and the sword of thy power into mine hands. 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 158 In Christianitie there is now appropriated to supreme Princes a Globe, and an infixt Crosse. 1636 P. Massinger Great Duke of Florence i. i. sig. C If I had beene the heire Of all the Globes and Scepters mankind bowes to, At my best you had deserv'd me. 1688 London Gaz. No. 2309/3 At the reading of the Gospel the Emperor stood up, holding his Scepter in one Hand, and the Globe in the other. 1753 Scots Mag. Mar. 156/1 The globe and cross..shew him to have been a..King. 1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 39 The globe and sceptre in such hands misplaced, Those ensigns of dominion, how disgraced! 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxxv. 188 With crown, with sceptre, and with globe, Emblems of empery. 1862 J. C. Robertson Hist. Christian Church (new ed.) II. 708 He was persuaded to surrender the ensigns of his power—the cross and the lance, the crown, the sceptre, and the globe. 1964 J. Wieners Ace of Pentacles 32 Sceptre, and pole, cross and globe at her left. 1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 July a12 The 10-metre bronze statue, depicting the czar at his coronation holding a globe and sceptre, is painted shining gold. 5. Anatomy. globe of the eye (also ocular globe) the eyeball, usually excluding the muscles and other tissue attached to it. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > eyeball balla1400 eye-apple1549 eyeball1594 globe of the eye1615 stivea1642 ocular globe1885 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 551 Proceeding forward it is dilated and embraceth the whole globe of the eye euen to the roote. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 162 The globe [of a fish's eye]..is furnished behind with a muscle, which serves to lengthen or flatten it, according to the necessities of the animal. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 510/2 It [sc. the tissue] abounds..around the globe of the eye. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 54 The globe of the eye consists of two segments, the anterior of which is more or less conical. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 468 Three females and one male..were admitted for enucleation of wasted globes. 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Ocular globe, the eyeball after the separation of its muscles and outer connections. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1309 The eye may be compared to a globular camera. The sensitive plate is the innermost layer or retina... Occupying the front of the globe is the biconvex lens. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Plastic Surg. 21 360 The left globe was ruptured posteriorly and proptosed down and out. There was total disorganisation of intra-ocular structures of the left eye with no light perception elicited. 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. iv. 23/2 Debris of a white, cheesy nature can occasionally be noted between the third eyelid (nictitating membrane) and the globe, usually indicating a conjunctival infection. 1998 Times 25 June 22/4 If the globe of the eye is missing, the orbit will fail to develop properly and the baby's face will be distorted. 6. a. A glass vessel of approximately spherical shape; esp. (a) a lampshade; (b) a vessel filled with water, used for displaying ornamental fish, a model scene (cf. also snowstorm n. 2), etc., or as a lens.fish-, gas-, mirror, water-globe, etc.: see first element. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > lens > [noun] > other lenses concave1632 globe1653 meniscus1693 hemispherule1696 convex1705 omphaloptic1728 omphalopter1738 crown lens1764 achromatic1785 condenser1798 meniscus lens1820 Fresnel lens1835 bull's-eye1839 Stanhope lens1850 spot lens1860 amplifier1866 achromat1873 projectora1884 aplanat1890 triplet condenser1892 Aldis lens1902 monocentric1922 Schmidt correcting plate1934 coated lens1948 Panavision1955 Schmidt correcting lens1961 re-imaging1962 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > shade for shade1780 globe1796 moonshade1830 abat-jour1844 lampshade1850 bell-shade1890 lightshade1912 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > zoo > [noun] > aquarium > fish bowl > for exhibiting fish globe1873 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations lx. 378 A certain Glass-globe, which is almost filled up with clear water, wherein several Glass-balls which are fraught with nothing but Air, do swim upon the surface of that water. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia Pref. sig. E A pretty large Globe of Glass,..fill'd with exceeding clear Brine. 1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 142 The Globes..must be made of very thick white Glass. 1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 10 I met a post chaise and four on the turnpike road: it had globes with lights in them. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 179 This instrument consists of a very strong glass tube..and ends in a globe of 1.2 or 1.3 inch in diameter. 1839 W. A. Chatto Treat. Wood Engraving viii. 652 The light, after passing through the globe, may fall directly on the block. 1873 B. Stewart Conservation of Energy i. 8 A glass globe containing numerous gold-fish. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 469/1 New lampshades..decorated the globes of the moderator-lamps. 1933 San Antonio (Texas) Express 8 Feb. 7/3 When Joan shook the globe the snowflakes flurried and scurried inside the ball, falling on the little church and the people. 1942 Amer. Speech 17 284/1 He also saw on his rambles a Terrarium—a covered glass globe or fish-tank containing flowers and plants to be grown indoors during the winter. 2003 Casa Grande (Arizona) Dispatch 2 Dec. 15/1 Simply fill the globe with water, arrange the flowers in the base, and seal it shut. b. A light bulb. Also more fully light globe Brit. /ˈlʌɪt ɡləʊb/ , U.S. /ˈlaɪt ˌɡloʊb/ , Australian English /ˈlɑet ɡloʊb/ , South African English /ˈlaɪt ɡləʊb/ , West African English /ˈlait ˌɡlob/ . Now chiefly Australian, South African, and West African. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > electric light > [noun] > parts of > light bulb bulb1796 electric bulb1856 electric light bulb1884 light bulb1885 globe1898 lamp-bulb1911 1898 Gleanings Bee Culture 1 Dec. 893/1 The one little globe made everything plain and distinct,..for it is 16 candle-power, and yet these globes cost now only 14 or 15 cents, and each one will run 1000 hours. 1899 ‘R. Devereux’ Side Lights S. Afr. 147 An endless stretch of sad grey fields, surrounded by high walls of barbed wire, topped by huge electric light globes. 1932 Argus (Melbourne) 9 Jan. 17/2 Sentenced to imprisonment for 14 days for having been in possession of an electric light globe which it was suspected had been stolen. 1971 A. Bamgboṣe in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 43 Globe, electric bulb. (We had no light because she broke the globe.) 1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1989) 342 He did not want to tear himself away from his vision, lightglobes flashing occasionally as gusts scattered the screen of leaves. 1998 J. Mau Sci. Austral. II. viii. 183 Build a circuit with two switches and an electric globe so that the globe lights when either one (or both) of the switches is closed. 2012 Mail & Guardian (S. Afr.) (Electronic ed.) 23 Nov. (heading) An offer of free LED globes is one way in which the power utility is trying to reduce consumption. †7. Military. a. A kind of grenade. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > grenade trombe1562 grenade1591 grenado1611 granata1637 hand grenade1637 bag-granado1638 shell1647 glass-grenade1664 globe1672 flask1769 petrol bomb1903 rifle grenade1909 hairbrush1916 Mills1916 pineapple bomb1916 stick grenade1917 fragmentation bomb1918 pineapple1918 potato-masher grenade1925 spitball1925 Molotov cocktail1940 sticky bomb1940 stick-bomb1941 red devila1944 stun grenade1977 flash-bang1982 1672 tr. Compleat Gunner iii. ix. 7 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii There is given to these sort of Globes the names of Granadoes. 1672 tr. Compleat Gunner iii. xiii. 10 in T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline iii Stinking Globes are made to annoy the Enemy. 1745 J. Spateman War 23 A hundred pregnant Bombs, the while, Their cursed Globes, with Death and Mischief fraught, Discharge. b. globe of compression [apparently after French globe de compression (although this is apparently only recorded later in dictionaries of French (1802), but see quot. 1838)] : an overcharged mine, the explosion of which produces a crater of greater radius than depth. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine petard1566 powder minea1639 fougade1643 bomb-chest1704 caisson1704 globe of compression1771 torpedo1786 fougasse1832 stifler1836 landmine1875 observation mine1886 egg1917 1771 Ann. Reg. 1770 21/1 The firing of the globe of compression was to be the signal for the attack. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 263/2 Globe of Compression, a name given by Belidor to mines in which the highest charges of powder are employed... They were first employed by the King of Prussia, in 1762, at the siege of Schweidnitz. 1855 Times 3 Oct. 10/2 His mines, if any existed, might have been destroyed by globes of compression. 1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Globe of compression, an exploded military mine in which the crater-radius is greater than the line of least resistance. 8. A woman's breast. Usually in plural. Now slang.Sometimes simply by metaphorical extension. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] titOE breastOE mammaOE pysea1400 mamellec1450 dug1530 duckya1533 bag1579 pommela1586 mam1611 Milky Way1622 bubby?1660 udder1702 globea1727 fore-buttock1727 tetty1746 breastwork?1760 diddy1788 snows1803 sweets1817 titty1865 pappy1869 Charleys1874 bub1881 breastiec1900 ninny1909 pair1919 boobs1932 boobya1934 fun bag1938 maraca1940 knockers1941 can1946 mammaries1947 bazooms1955 jug1957 melon1957 bosoms1959 Bristols1961 chichi1961 nork1962 puppies1963 rack1968 knob1970 dingleberry1980 jubblies1991 a1727 W. Pattison Cupid's Metamorph. (1728) 52 Your flowing Vest Disclos'd the naked Wonders of your Breast, How meltingly the snowy Globes arose! c1890 My Secret Life III. xvii. 284 I burst off a button or two, which exposed her breast, and getting my hand on to one of the globes began feeling and kissing it. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 457 He said he had seen from the gods my peerless globes. 1984 T. Robbins Jitterbug Perfume 57 ‘I resent that,’ said Sheila Gomez, glancing at the little crucifix that dangled its gold-skinned heels above her globes. 2007 Sunday Tribune (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 7 Oct. 19 [Her] ‘unnaturally round’ globes. 9. Medicine. = globus n. More fully hysteric globe. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > hysteria mother?c1450 rising of the motherc1450 suffocation of the womb, matrix, motherc1550 strangulation of the matrix or womb1601 hysterica passio1603 hysterical passion1623 hysteric passion1655 rising of the matrix1660 hystericism1710 globus hystericus1741 globe1751 hysteria1757 globus1833 pseudorabies1892 1751 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. 439 Then they feel a sort of a Globe arise from the lower Part of the Belly to the Hyphochondria and Diaphragm. 1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville I. x. 274 Poor Constantia, who knew not what hysterical affections were, thought the globe rising in the throat to be symptomatic of approaching dissolution. 1841 W. H. Christie Love Story II. xv. 231 Delmé tried to speak, but his tongue clove to his mouth, and the hysteric globe rose to his throat. 1905 G. B. Shaw Irrational Knot vi. 124 Marian felt the hysteric globe at her throat as she tried to speak. 10. Golf. A golf ball. Chiefly in to miss the globe. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > equipment > [noun] > ball golf ball1545 globe1862 1862 R. Chambers Few Rambling Remarks Golf 23 Every beginner, from over-anxiety, ‘misses the globe’ the first shot. 1874 Glasgow News 21 Sept. Began my game by missing what is called ‘the globe’ altogether. 1923 J. Agate At Half-past Eight 192 My eye, scorning the diminutive, dimpled globe resting on the tee, would wander. 1996 Irish Times (Nexis) 26 Oct. (Sport section) 4 The men who fail to count a stroke when they miss the globe; the men who never replace a divot. †II. Other senses. 11. A compact body (of people or celestial beings). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster > compact body of people or animals sop?a1400 plump?a1425 globe1610 phalanx1654 noyau1965 1610 G. Fletcher Christs Victorie 71 Out there flies A globe of winged Angels, swift as thought. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 512 Him round A Globe of fierie Seraphim inclos'd. View more context for this quotation 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 113 The Bashkirs collected into ‘globes’ and ‘turms’, as their only means of meeting the long lines of descending Chinese cavalry. 1850 S. Mills Day Pencilings Light & Shade 17 That shining globe of Angels rise,..Upmounting to their native skies. Compounds C1. a. Objective. globe-engirdling adj. ΚΠ 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 8 Globe-engirdling Drake, the Nauall Palme that wonne. 1994 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 9 Nov. a20 Even the globe-engirdling British empire was gone. globe-girding adj. ΚΠ 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 76 The alps' globe-girding chain. 1953 O. Knight Fort Worth (1990) 220 The Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant which makes the globe-girding B-36 bombers. 2006 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Apr. h1 Some globe-girding cruise lines offer similar itineraries every year, while others pride themselves on including new and obscure ports of call. globe-girdling adj. ΚΠ 1875 Temple Bar June 255 A somewhat old-fashioned house, not working any of your globe-girdling speculative gigantic operations. 1943 Amer. Mag. Mar. 98/1 A network of globe-girdling airways. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 12 Feb. 14/1 Teddy Roosevelt's new swashbuckling, globe-girdling kind of presidency. globe maker n. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. Alphabet. Table sig. eee 2 Map-makers and Globe-makers, create Lands and Ilands at pleasure. 1704 J. Flamsteed Let. 15 Nov. in I. Newton Corr. (1967) IV. 427 Bayers mapps which our Globemakers Copy are all false. 1878 C. H. Coote in Trans. New Shakspere Soc. 98 It was a ‘new map’ on a new projection made by one of the most eminent globe-makers of his time. 1995 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 19 Oct. Recently, when some European countries' borders changed, globe makers met world demand for corrected globes. globe-making n. ΚΠ 1766 B. Martin App. Descr. & Use Globes i. 7 Who but a Person most miserably unskilled in the Art and Mystery of Globe-Making could ever assert so gross a Falsehood. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 986/2 In the history of globe-making, the name of Ferguson, the mathematician, has an honourable place. 1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 7 You will not find a better example of globemaking elsewhere in the world. b. Parasynthetic. globe-cheeked adj. ΚΠ 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 18 Around the altar prance and pace Globe-cheekit Fun. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) 61 That's not to say that these globe-cheeked creatures [sc. hamsters] wouldn't enjoy a spot of open-air foraging. C2. globe amaranth n. any of several amaranths of the central and South American genus Gomphrena (family Amaranthaceae); spec. G. globosa, an annual widely grown for its compact, easily dried flower heads, which are purple in the native plant and in various other colours in cultivars. ΚΠ 1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. Index Amaranth Globe. [to signify Globe amaranth] see Amaranthoides. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 5/2 No. 179. Everlasting Flower (Xeranthemum annuum—Annuals, some with purple, others with white, flowers... The dry leaves of the calyx retain their form and color for years, like the globe amaranth. 1913 Indiana Weekly Messenger 12 July Globe amaranth, rhodanthe and helichrysum are three good everlasting flowers to plant. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 116 Globe Amaranth. Half-hardy annual useful for edging borders with unusual spherical heads of flowers that can be dried and used as everlasting flowers. globe amaranthus n. = globe amaranth n. ΚΠ 1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) I Amarantoides, Globe Amaranthus or Everlasting Flower. 1846 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 136 118 Instances of this bleaching action have been given in the juices of Globe amaranthus and Plumbago auriculata. 1931 Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 7 Feb. (Mag. section) 4 Bachelor buttons... to you it may be..the Globe Amaranthus. 2008 Food Service Director (Nexis) 15 June 24 Here, I featured..day lilies in several shades of red, from pink to burgundy [and] a pink globe amaranthus. † globe animal n. Obsolete = globe-animalcule n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > subclass Flagellidia > [noun] > order Phytoflagellida > specific members of genus Volvox globe animal1753 gimlet1770 glutton1770 1753 H. Baker Employment for Microscope ii. xiii. 322 (heading) The globe animal. 1806 P. Wakefield Domest. Recreat. vi. 92 The globe animal, so named on account of its form, which is like a round ball without any appearance of head, tail, or fins. † globe-animalcule n. Obsolete a globular colony of the minute chlorophyte Volvox (originally thought to be a single organism). ΚΠ ?1787 W. F. Mavor New Dict. Nat. Hist. I Globe animalcule. This very singular, minute, aquatic animal, whose shape seems to be exactly globular, without either head, tail, or fins, was first discovered by the ingenious Baker, in his microscopical experiments. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 275 This little cell, so well known to the older observers as the globe-animalcule or revolving-cell. globe artichoke n. = artichoke n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > stalk vegetables > [noun] > artichokes artichoke1531 cardoon1594 cactus1607 globe artichoke1763 Chinese artichoke1891 Japanese artichoke1902 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > artichokes artichoke1531 ground-thistle1591 cardoon1594 cactus1607 sherdoon1661 Spanish cardon1699 globe artichoke1763 Chinese artichoke1891 Japanese artichoke1902 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 49 This size is the more surprizing, as that species never spreads near so much as our globe artichoke. 1882 Garden 11 Mar. 169/3 Now is a good time to make plantations of Globe Artichokes. 1959 Home Encycl. 44 Cardoons. A kind of thistle grown in Europe and America, and a close relation of the globe artichoke. 1995 R. Gray & R. Rogers River Cafe Cook Bk. (1996) i. 49 Prepare the globe artichokes by removing the tough outer leaves, then cut off the tops of the leaves. † globe-billed curassow adj. Obsolete rare the great curassow, Crax rubra, which has a yellow knob on the bill. ΚΠ 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Globe-billed curassow, in Ornithology, the Crax globicera of Linnæus, a native of Guiana. globe cock n. = globe valve n. ΚΠ 1869 U.S. Patent 47,565 1/1 I..have invented a new and useful Improvement in Globe-Cocks. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 988/1 Globe-cock, formerly a sphere with a stem by which it was moved..now a circular disk of similar use, and retaining the name. 2005 Independent (Nexis) 20 July 6 We are replacing the rusted taps with a pair of new globe cocks which will fill the bath rapidly. globe crowfoot n. now rare = globeflower n. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 810 The globe flower is called..in English Globe Crowfoote, Troll flowers, and Lockron gowlons. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iv. 69/2 The Caper, is a flower like the Crowfoot, or Globe Crowfoot. 1792 in Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) (ed. 4) I. 72 In that tour he [sc. Linnaeus] found that his horses left untouched..mountain and globe crowfoot, cranesbill, yellow wolfsbane, and several shrubs. 1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 16 Our gardeners know it by the name of Globe Ranunculus, or Globe Crowfoot; and it is the Lucken gowan of the Scotch. 1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal I. 358 Globe Flower... Synonyms. Globe Trollius. Boule d'Or. European Globe Flower. Globe Ranunculus. Globe Crowfoot. Lucken-Gowans. globe-daisy n. now rare a perennial, herbaceous plant, Globularia trichosantha (also known as G. vulgaris) (family Plantaginaceae), found in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean, and grown elsewhere for its round, daisy-like bluish-violet flowers and evergreen, ground-covering leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > other flowers spring flowera1586 globe-daisy1597 sceptre-flower1866 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 512 The blewe Daisie is called..in English blew Daisies and Globe Daisie. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Globe Daisy, or Blue Daisy, is Globularia & Bellis cœrulea, which see. 1956 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 69 15 A Witch Gowan can be a Globe-Daisy. globe dial n. a sundial in the form of a globe. ΚΠ 1625 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 183 For gilding and working y^e globe dialls £3. 1737 C. Leadbetter Mechanick Dialling p. vi. To Rdr. Plain and easy Directions for making of Reflective, Refractive, and Globe Dials. 1845 W. A. Nesfield in Garden Hist. (1987) 15 147 Central grass plot having a mound..surmounted by a gilded globe Dial, or some other conspicuously large sculpted object. 2005 M. Lennox-Boyd Sundials 74 (caption) It is a globe dial and is in effect a reproduction of the earth itself. globe fennel n. rare = Florence fennel n. at Florence n.¹ Additions. ΚΠ 1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 190 Smooth Globe-Fennel. 2006 ‘The Gardiner’ ontheplot.blogspot.com 30 Oct. (blog, accessed 16 June 2008) The Globe Fennel is looking healthy. globe fish n. any of various fishes that have (or can assume) a near-spherical or very stout form, esp. one of the family Tetraodontidae or Diodontidae, which assume this shape by inflation; a porcupine fish or puffer fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Tetraodontidae (puffers) > member of (puff-fish) globe fish1668 sea-orb1774 Tetrodon1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 swell-fish1839 rabbitfish1842 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1902 toado1943 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Diodontidae (porcupine-fishes) > member of toad-fish1612 globe fish1668 sculpin1672 sea-hedgehog1711 sea-orb1774 puff-fish1807 puffer1814 balloonfish1834 swell-fish1839 tambour1854 swallow1876 blaasop1947 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. 142 Fishes of a hard crustaceous skin..Sphærical..[as] Orbis Scutatus, Globe-fish. 1736 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 113 Orbis lævis variegatus: The Glob-Fish. 1884–5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 289 Tetrodontidæ..have received numerous popular names, such as swell-fish, bottle-fish, bellows-fish, egg-fish, globe-fish..etc. 1992 J. Mann Murder, Magic, & Med. (1994) ii. 36 The puffer fish and other members of the family Tetraodontoidea [sic], such as the globe fish and the porcupine fish, contain the deadly neurotoxin tetrodotoxin. globeflower n. any of several plants of the genus Trollius (family Ranunculaceae) whose petals form a compact, round, typically yellow flower head; esp. T. europaeus, which occurs locally in Europe and arctic America. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers githa1382 nigellaa1398 gollana1400 pilewort?a1425 gold-knop1538 fig-wort1548 lucken gowan1548 melanthion1559 gold crap1571 bachelor's buttons1578 celandine1578 gold cup1578 Goldilocks1578 nigel1578 nigelweed1578 troll flower1578 peppergrass1587 golden cup1589 globe crowfoot1597 globeflower1597 winter aconite1597 kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664 devil-in-a-bush1722 globe ranunculus1731 turban1760 love-in-a-mist1787 love-in-a-puzzle1824 fair-grass1825 water buttercup1831 golden knobs1835 ficary1848 New Year's gift1856 bishop wort1863 fennel-flower1863 golden ball1875 1597Globe flower [see globe crowfoot n.]. 1664 S. Blake Compl. Gardeners Pract. 40 (heading) Globe-flower. 1806 B. McMahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 606 Hardy Perennial and Biennial Fibrous Rooted Flowering Plants... Trollius asiaticus. Asiatic Globe-flower. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 832 They are ‘flower-oases’, mostly with low-growers..but occasionally with more ambitious types like globe-flower, Jacob's ladder, larkspur, and ragwort. 2000 Sunday Times 23 July (Mag. section) 54/1 We often walked up onto the mountains to see things such as wild orchids or globeflowers, which were objects of pilgrimage for my mother. globe lamp n. a lamp in which the light source is protected by a globe of glass. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame > protected by specific object globe lantern1717 globe lamp1739 globe light1749 gauze-lamp1877 1739 Proc. Sessions of Peace June 90/1 I saw him bring a Globe Lamp in his Apron into the Room. 1825 H. Wilson Mem. IV. 67 This room..was lighted by large, ground-glass, French globe-lamps, suspended from the cieling. 1897 Daily News 7 Jan. 6/7 The boatswain was taking a globe lamp into the forepeak. 1995 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 27 Oct. 1 b Concrete booths and..wooden tables overlook the dance floor from terraces lighted by globe lamps atop stone pillars. globe lantern n. = globe lamp n.; (also) a spherical paper lantern. ΚΠ 1717 W. Sutherland Prices Labour in Ship-building 255 (table) Upright globe lanterns. 1851 J. G. Bruff Jrnl. 17 July in Gold Rush (1944) II. v. 996 I..slept very soundly, notwithstanding a large brilliant globe lantern near the door of my state-room. 1898 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 2/6 The effect was satisfactorily Oriental when the huge colored globe lanterns..were lighted. 2002 This is Wilts. (Nexis) 6 Feb. The globe lantern on the pedestrian refuge was replaced by a conventional street light. 2006 Hollywood Reporter 2 May 40/1 Han Feng's gorgeous costumes combine with globe lanterns and multitudes of flowers to fill the stage with color. globe light n. = globe lamp n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > with a protected flame > protected by specific object globe lantern1717 globe lamp1739 globe light1749 gauze-lamp1877 1749 W. Hopley Catal. Househ.-furnit. J. Gilchrist 8 Two globe lights. 1849 Times 21 Feb. 8 A small gas pipe communicates with the globe light. 1971 Gourmet Feb. 12/1 To reach the small bar and restaurant, one..goes down a paneled corridor..illuminated by antique glass globe lights. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 5 May 38/1 Giant globe lights and pressed-tin ceilings. globe lightning n. = ball lightning n. at ball n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1859 G. A. Rowell Ess. on Cause of Rain Contents p.viii Globe lightning, 394. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 21 282 It is what is technically called ‘ball-lightning’ or ‘globe-lightning’, and when seen near at hand appears like a falling ball of fire. 1997 Providence (R. I.) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 24 June 1 a Ball lightning, also known as globe lightning, is a relatively rare form of lighting consisting of a reddish luminous ball about one foot in diameter. † globe-loadstone n. Obsolete rare a spherical magnet. ΚΠ 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. iii. 170 Not to mention how hard a thing it is; first, to find the two Polary points in a Globe-Loadstone [etc.]. globemallow n. any of various plants of the North American genus Sphaeralcea (family Malvaceae), found in arid areas and typically bearing small cup-shaped flowers and spherical fruit; frequently with distinguishing word. ΚΠ 1842 Penny Cycl. XXII. 336/2 S[phæralcea] Cisplatina, the Cisplatine globe-mallow. 1924 A. W. Sampson Native Amer. Forage Plants xvii. 395 Some species of the..globe mallow (Sphaeralcea)..are similar in forage value to the wild hollyhocks. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World vii. 141 One species..visits the brick-red flowers of scarlet globe mallow. 2008 Las Vegas (Nevada) Rev.-Jrnl. (Nexis) 2 Mar. 3 k Globemallow is the favorite plant of the desert tortoise. globe ranunculus n. now rare = globeflower n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > allied flowers githa1382 nigellaa1398 gollana1400 pilewort?a1425 gold-knop1538 fig-wort1548 lucken gowan1548 melanthion1559 gold crap1571 bachelor's buttons1578 celandine1578 gold cup1578 Goldilocks1578 nigel1578 nigelweed1578 troll flower1578 peppergrass1587 golden cup1589 globe crowfoot1597 globeflower1597 winter aconite1597 kiss-me-twice-before-I-rise1664 devil-in-a-bush1722 globe ranunculus1731 turban1760 love-in-a-mist1787 love-in-a-puzzle1824 fair-grass1825 water buttercup1831 golden knobs1835 ficary1848 New Year's gift1856 bishop wort1863 fennel-flower1863 golden ball1875 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. Helleboro-Ranunculus, Globe-Ranunculus vulgô. 1800 Catal. Garden, Grass & Flower Seeds (Russell, Russell & Willmott) 24/2 Yellow globe ranunculus. 1900 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy Autumns in Argyleshire with Rod & Gun xi. 184 My mind recalls pictures of Loch Awe in the late spring, when the large globe ranunculus is in flower. globe sight n. a front sight for a rifle, pistol, etc., in the form of a ball or disc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > sight > types of dispart1578 telescopic sight1674 plain sight1686 aim-frontlet1745 hausse1787 foresight1806 gloaming sight1817 night-sight1822 bead1831 leaf1832 backsight1847 globe sight1847 pendulum hausse1850 hindsight1851 tangent scale1859 tangent1861 tangent backsight1862 training pendulum1862 training level1863 peep sight1866 dispart-sight1867 notch sight1867 buck-horn1877 orthoptic1881 aperturea1884 pinball-sighta1884 dispart patch1884 sight bar1884 flap-sight1887 barley-corn1896 ring sight1901 riflescope1902 spotting scope1904 tangent sight1908 Aldis sight1918 wind-sight1923 scope sight1934 gyro-sight1942 1847 Sandusky (Ohio) Clarion 23 Mar. (advt.) His rifles, with improved twist, raised and globe sights, are warranted to carry with accuracy from sixty to one hundred rods. 1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 367/1 At this short distance you don't care for the peep and globe sights. 2003 Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail (Nexis) 14 Mar. 1 d Cale mounted a circular ‘globe sight’ to the business end of the barrel and an adjustable ‘ghost ring’ sight near the receiver. † globe-slater n. Obsolete an isopod crustacean of the genus Sphaeroma, which can roll up in a manner resembling that of a pill woodlouse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > member of genus Sphaeroma sea-pill-ball1850 globe-slater1869 1869 W. S. Dallas tr. F. Müller Facts & Arguments for Darwin viii. 72 This applies also to the Box-Slaters (Idothea), to the viviparous Globe-Slaters (Sphæroma) and Shield-Slaters (Cassidina). 1890 Cent. Dict. Sphæroma, the typical genus of Sphæromidæ... They are known as globe-slaters. globe thistle n. any of numerous thistles constituting the Old World genus Echinops (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), which bear rounded spiky flower heads composed of many different capitula. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > thistles thistlec725 carduea1398 wolf's-thistlea1400 cardoona1425 wolf-thistle1526 cotton-thistle1548 gum-thistle1548 oat thistle1548 black chameleon1551 ixia1551 Saint Mary thistle1552 milk thistle1562 cow-thistle1565 bedeguar1578 carline1578 silver thistle1578 white chameleon1578 globe thistle1582 ball thistle1597 down thistle1597 friar's crown1597 lady's thistle1597 gummy thistle1598 man's blood1601 musk thistle1633 melancholy thistle1653 Scotch thistle1660 boar-thistle1714 spear- thistle1753 gentle thistle1760 woolly thistle1760 wool-thistle1769 bur-thistlea1796 Canada thistle1796 pine thistle1807 plume thistle1814 melancholy plume thistle1825 woolly-headed thistle1843 dog thistle1845 dwarf thistle1846 welted thistle1846 pixie glove1858 Mexican thistle1866 Syrian thistle1866 bull thistle1878 fish belly1878 fish-bone-thistle1882 green thistle1882 herringbone thistle1884 Californian thistle1891 winged thistle1915 fish-thistles- 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xxxvi. f. 285 Spina peregrins, the Gloabe Thistle, or the Oate Thistle. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 125 And he that inquireth into the little bottome of the globe-thistle, may finde that gallant bush arise from a scalpe of like disposure. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 406 Common Globe-thistle is so called from the flowers growing in globular heads. 1949 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 18 62/2 They also marked bees foraging upon three patches of globe thistle (Echinops sphaerocephalus). 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xxv. 602 The globe thistles, Echinops, have taken the composite trick of flower condensation one step further. globe tulip n. a mariposa lily (genus Calochortus), spec. one with nodding globular flowers and native to woodland in California and Mexico. ΚΠ 1897 M. Parsons Wild Flowers Calif. 54 White Globe-Tulip. Calochortus albus. 1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 222 Calochortus,... Globe-Tulip... About 60 cormous plants of W. N. Amer. 1995 C. Brickell Garden Plants 148/1 One of the most exciting, if not always tractable, genera of bulbs to grow is Calochortus, known colloquially as Cat's Ears, Fairy Lanterns and Mariposa or Globe Tulips. globe valve n. (originally) a valve enclosed in a spherical chamber or having a spherical body; (in later use) one in which fluid flow is controlled by a movable spindle that can be raised or lowered over a fixed seat. ΚΠ 1855 U.S. Patent 12,966 1/1 These drawings represent a common globe-valve internally the same as in common use. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 988/1 Globe-valve, 1. A ball-valve, one of a spherical shape... 2. A valve inclosed in a globular chamber. 1919 L. H. Morrison Oil Engines xxv. 433 Figure 340 is the starter used on the Fairbanks-Morse vertical engines. When the engine is in operation, a globe valve in the air line..is closed, cutting off the air. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 22/4 I..became the only living expert who could conjugate irregular Latin verbs and strip down a Hopkinson globe valve, such is my belief in the holistic nature of knowledge. Derivatives ˈglobelike adj. ΚΠ 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. iv. xx. 86 A Globe-like head, a Gold-like haier. a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 102 Unto Vesta,..they built Temples of a round form globelike. 1798 C. Palmer Treat. Sci. Heliogr. iii. 35 Both water and air are globules or globelike particles. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 476/1 His wonderful globe-like body is so striking. 1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 34 A globe-like swelling forms, called an oak gall or apple. 2003 R. Ozeki All over Creation vi. 332 She pointed to a cluster of tall purple flower balls, perfectly round and globelike on their thick stems. ˈglobewise adv. ΚΠ 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. vi. f. 36^v The head not aslope cornered, but rounde and globewyse fashioned [L. sed in globi figuram rotundum], the hayre of fayre aburne or chesten colour. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. F7 [Artichokes] somewhat resemble Pine-apples, consisting of many skales, compacted Globe-wise. 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 192 In the Orangerie were..two pair of Mirtles in Cases, cut Globe-wise. 1994 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 11 Dec. They say it's probably the most-watched program on TV, globewise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). globev. Brit. /ɡləʊb/, U.S. /ɡloʊb/ Forms: see globe n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: globe n. Etymology: < globe n. Compare classical Latin globāre (see globate adj.). Chiefly literary and poetic. 1. transitive. To form into a globe; to make globular. Also reflexive and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > make into curved three-dimensional shape [verb (transitive)] > make spherical or globular embowlc1595 orb1600 englobe1611 ensphere1640 globe1641 spherea1849 spherify1848 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 53 Yet is it [sc. self-respect, previously designated as ‘the radical moisture’ of ‘every..worthy enterprize’] not incontinent to bound it self, as humid things are, but hath in it a most restraining and powerfull abstinence to start back, and glob it self upward from..any soile wherewith it may peril to stain it self. 1838 R. W. Emerson Addr. Divinity Coll. 5 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 33 The great stars that globed themselves in Heaven. 1905 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 3/4 The universal cosmic Mind, which has dwelt in all the nebulae as they globed themselves into all the worlds. 1977 W. S. Graham Coll. Poems (1979) 253 I can discern at a pinch you Through the lens of the ouzo glass, Your face globing this whole Piraeus Taverna of buzzing plucked wires. 1990 D. Walcott Omeros xxiv. 127 The swift suddenly shot past..and he saw the whole world globed in the passing sorrow of her sleepless eye. 2. intransitive. To be or become globelike. Also: to form a circle about. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > take curved three-dimensional shape [verb (intransitive)] > become spherical or globular bulb1681 orb1850 globe1856 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 99 My eyes globed luminous Through orbits of blue shadow. 1889 E. Arnold Light of World (1891) 223 So the dew Globes on a grass-blade. 1924 Times 3 Apr. 17/5 The long-tailed-tit's nest already globing among the thorns. 1989 D. Duane Wounded Sky xvi. 252 Jim gazed out at the ships globed about Enterprise, a little galaxy of fires around the ships. Derivatives ˈglobing adj. ΚΠ 1808 J. Spalding Divine Theory I. i. ii. 185 An idea of the first movement of the fluid, which we call separating, being in this globing form,..seems to be suggested by the hollow and rumbling sound of thunder in a cloud. 1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 30 The myriads of houses over which the black globing dome dominates. 1924 Times 24 Apr. 15/6 A vast mingled company..pressed north under the globing Easter moon. 2005 T. Wojnicki in H. Junker AutoBioDiversity 243 I scent new fruit, the perfume of the globing, juicing apples, oranges, and lemons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1450v.1641
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