globularadj.n.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §31 You shall see the Flame of the Candle, open it self, and..appeare in Figure Globular and not in Piramis.

a1651 N. Culverwell Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) xviii. 199 The proper figure of flame be Globular and not Pyramidal.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 8 Her eye is large and globular.

1719 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher II. xx. 569 The Earth..is not perfectly globular, but has a greater Protuberancy under the Equator.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. i. 1237 In this station two globular hills appeared near its N.E. part.

1796 S. Vince Princ. Hydrostat. x. 119 It is better to make the bulb flat than globular.

1824 D. Douglas Jrnl. 10–11 Aug. (1914) 81 Large and much-branched bunches with large and globular white berries.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) ix. 140 From the centre of the ceiling..hung a globular lamp.

1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xxvii. 425 Isopoda... The animal is seldom very convex or capable of easily assuming a globular form.

1936 Burlington Mag. Mar. 123/2 A plain globular soap-box (called a washball box in England some fifty years earlier).

1975 J. Updike in New Yorker 21 Aug. 32/3 Rain, in gleaming globular drops..began to fall.

2001 Water Gardening Oct. 39/3 Large globular buttercup-like flowers are produced in May and June.

1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies sig. b2/1 This Animal Fluid [sc. Blood] consists of Two Parts, Serous and Globular.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. i. 118 The Blood..separates into two Parts, one of a more glutinous and solid Texture, call'd the Globular.

1830 R. Knox tr. P. A. Béclard Elements Gen. Anat. 61 There is at first no determinate texture in the organs; there are not even globules at the commencement. At a later period, the entire mass of the body appears globular or granulated.

1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Globular dentine, a layer of dentine, presenting rounded masses, lying immediately beneath the enamel.

2007 A. V. Sverdlin & A. R. Ness in G. E. Totten Steel Heat Treatm. (ed. 2) iii. 160 As fine-plate pearlite transforms more easily to globular pearlite, it is recommended that normalization..be carried out before softening.

1935 Biochem. Jrnl. 29 2353 Edestin is thus a typical ‘globular’ protein.

1954 J. C. Kendrew in H. Neurath & K. Bailey Proteins II b. xxiii. 846 It has..become conventional to divide the whole range of proteins into two main classes: the fibrous and the globular.

1970 R. W. McGilvery Biochemistry ii. 9 Hemoglobin is a representative of the globular proteins—those with a compact structure that are usually quite soluble in the water phase of tissues.

1990 Protein Engin. 4 107/1 Serpins are globular proteins with exposed surface loops.

2001 P. Barham Sci. Cooking ii. 19 Many proteins are rather tightly coiled up (globular proteins) so when the internal bonds are released, and they become denatured, they expand outwards.

1934 F. E. Fowle Smithsonian Physical Tables (ed. 8) 637 Star clusters fall into two distinctly different types... Globular: Typical , Messier 13... Galactic: Very varied... Almost exclusively in galactic region devoid of globulars.

1959 Listener 2 July 14/2 Altogether, about 100 globulars are known.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 201/1 The brightness and distinctive appearance of globulars make them relatively easy to detect at large distances.

2003 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Oct. 30/1 Globulars thus appear to result from a stellar baby boom—the formation of a large number of stars at the same time within a small region.

1722 T. Haselden Descr. & Use Mercator's Chart xii I could, Sir, observe to you many other Deficiencies and Absurdities of this Globular-Chart.

1815 J. Dougall Young Man's Best Compan. 309 In charts and maps of this construction [sc. using Mercator's system] the parts near the equator differ very little from a plane or a globular chart or map.

1859 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation (ed. 2) 291/2 Globular Chart, a meridional projection, in which the distance of the eye from the plane of the meridian, upon which the projection is made, is supposed to be equal to the sine of the angle 45°.

1785 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 218 It follows, that an observer, who is inclosed in a globular cluster of stars, and not far from the center, will never be able, with the naked eye, to see to the end of it.

1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 397 Another point of resemblance between the resolved globular clusters, and the nebulæ of the same form.

1961 Listener 7 Dec. 973/1 Globular clusters are of particular importance in modern astronomy, since studies of them have provided a great deal of information about the shape and structure of the Galaxy.

2002 New Scientist 9 Nov. 43/3 It seems that collisions can produce a new and exotic species of stars within the cores of globular clusters.

1843 W. S. Harris On Nature of Thunderstorms i. 35 The appearance termed globular lightning, may be the result of similar discharges.

1883 Times 4 Apr. 5/2 Mr. Scott thinks that the occurrence of globular lightning is perfectly well established.

1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 41 739 A Junkers Ju. 86..was struck by globular lightning.

1720 H. Wilson Trigonom. Improv'd (advt.) sig. A6^v There is now going forward a compleat Set of Sea-Charts, from a new Globular Projection, representing the Surface of the Earth in its true and proper Form.

1841 Sat. Mag. 25 Sept. 117/1 The meridians and parallels in the globular projection are, therefore, in reality, ellipses.

1964 D. Greenhood Mapping vi. 158 The result is a hemisphere familiar in schoolroom use, the Globular projection. It has no special scientific properties but readily affords general notions of the chief land masses.

2002 T. Feeman Portraits of Earth vii. 46 Globular projections portray one hemisphere inside a circle and, so, have the visual appeal of presenting a curved view of the earth.

1733 J. Kelly Mod. Navigator's Compleat Tutor I. (ed. 2) Pref. With Great Circle (Spherical, or Globular) Sailing, the Use of the Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, &c.

1823 Times 2 Jan. 1/5 (advt.) A Young Man wants a Situation to teach..trigonometry, navigation, globular sailing.

1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit., & Art (ed. 4) 1083 [Sailing] is called globular sailing, when the chart is a globular chart, or constructed on the supposition that the earth is a sphere.

1741 D. Watson tr. D. Lambin in Horace Odes Epodes & Carmen Seculare 369/1 There can be nothing more expressive than these Words, by which he describes the Smoak globularly coming from the Flames.

1856 Rogue's Life ii, in Househ. Words 8 Mar. 181/1 When a man has no perceptible eyelids and when his eyes globularly project so far out of his head, that [etc.].

2001 T. Shimizu & I. Sivec in E. Dominguez Trends Res. Ephemeroptera & Plecoptera 394 Nymphal cerci globularly swelling in several segments.

1715 H. Wilson Navigation New modell'd vii. 191 A Plain Chart, in which the Degrees of Longitude and Latitude are everywhere equal, without any Respect to the Globularness of the Earth.

2001 N. K. Singh Encycl. Hinduism LIX. 4229 This is evident in his pairing off the mind with the atom as twin candidates, so to speak, for the attribute of sphericity or globularness.