单词 | globy |
释义 | globyadj. Chiefly poetic and literary. Globular, spherical; rounded; resembling a globe, globe-like. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular roundc1300 orbicular?1440 spherical1523 spheral1571 globous1591 globy1595 bulbed1597 orbed1598 sphery1600 spheric1610 globical1612 rotundious1614 globular1626 globed1633 global1637 globose1667 spheriform1678 globosous1681 globar1699 bulbous1783 ball-shaped1802 globate1806 perispheric1828 bulb-like1836 balloon-shaped1839 bulbiform1849 globuloid1889 1595 M. Drayton Endimion & Phœbe sig. D 3 Teares..Fell on his cheekes..In globy circles like pure drops of Milk. 1596 G. Markham Poem of Poems vii. sig. D8 Thy..nouell..Is like a globie cup made Sphearie round. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood vii. 83 The worlds whole globy round. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 15 One of the highest arks that human contemplation..can make from the globy sea wheron she stands. 1783 Poems Eng. & W. Indies 39 The globy shaddock, or the quaint cushew..shall bathe in Eden's dew. 1837 L. Hunt Blue-stocking Revels iii, in Poet. Wks. (1844) 120 Thus, talks he of roses? They come, thick and globy. 1880 R. H. Stoddard Poems 28 The squashes stud the garden vine, Crook-necked, or globy. 1945 D.Niland in F. D. Davison Coast to Coast: Austral. Stories 1943 45 The swell of her globey breasts that her lover would cup in his hands. 1985 P. Alexander Navigable Waterways 71 Trees hang above her, their globy tops bushy stars on stalks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1595 |
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