loben.

1525 Anothomia in tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Handy Warke Surg. sig. Biv/1 The longues hath .v. lobos or feders.]

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. H j^v Demaunde, Howe many lobbes hath the lunges? Answere .v. Thre in the ryght party, and two in the lefte.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 75 These eminences are neither to be called Lobes, Fibres, nor wynges.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. ii. 108 The lobes and severall parcells of the liver. View more context for this quotation

1667 N. Fairfax in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 549 The left Lobe of the Lungs almost quite wasted.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xi. 202 The heart lies on the left side; a lobe of the lungs on the right.

1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 320 The liver was found of large size, and its left lobe reached over the stomach into the left hypochondrium.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xiii. 450 In very many snakes one lobe of the lungs is rudimentary.

1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (1722) 124/1 The external [ear] is..divided into two Parts, of which the upper is called Pinna, or the Wing, the lower Fibra, or Lobe.

1826 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 5) ii. xxiv. 393 An incision was begun over the condyloid process, opposite the lobe of the ear.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ix. 107 Pursued and brought back by the hair of his head, or the lobe of his ear.

1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond II. xx. 288 Her ear..was of a very pretty shape, with a soft unpierced lobe.

1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. i. 5 Some very few Seeds are divided, not into two Lobes, but more.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. v. 211 Of Berrys, Cones, Lobes, and some other Parts of Trees.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. v. 212 A Long Flat Lobe... Its whole Cavity is filled up with one single Fruit.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (1733) (at cited word) A Pea or Bean being committed to the Ground, is first found to cleave into two Parts, which are, as it were, two Leaves or Lobes of the Placenta.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. viii. 90 Such as have the Lobes of the Corollæ bent obliquely to the Right.

1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 522 Then rise the tender germs, upstarting quick And spreading wide their spongy lobes.

1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) iv. 26 c Leaves divided palmately into many narrow lobes.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 570 Corolla monopetalous, regular, tubular, with its lobes corresponding in number to the teeth of the calyx.

1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xiii. 292 The immersion of a leaf in pure water sometimes caused the lobes to close.

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. iv. 98 Lobe is the common name of one of the parts of a simple blade, especially when there is only one order of incision.

1672 R. Wiseman Treat. Wounds i. 134 A maid servant was shot into the right side of the Sinciput..she lived as long, viz. until the Lobe of the Brain was wrought out or corrupted.

1719 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (1722) (at cited word) Bidloo uses the diminutive Lobellus, for [sic] little Lobe, for the four Processes of the Brain.

1831 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. (ed. 2) 411 The middle lobes of the brain, separated from the posterior by a groove directed obliquely backwards.

1849 H. M. Noad Lect. Electr. (ed. 3) 461 Of the four lobes of the brain, the fourth only is found to actuate the electric current; it is hence called the electric lobe.

1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 558 That the Lobes of the Cerebellum are the parts specially concerned in the regulation of the muscular movements.

1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) viii. 196 The olfactory lobes which..form..a part of the brain.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 357 Lobi (the Lobes), the parts of the Maxilla above the Palpus.

1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 352 The Galley Wasp..Two little lobes before the tympanum.

1843 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds III. 42 The vignette represents the structure of the foot..one lobe on each side each of the phalanges.

1846 R. Patterson Introd. Zool. 34 The lobes of the mouth become more or less distended.

1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria xiii. 342 The upper lobe of the tail.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 382 Their [sc. grebes'] feet..have the tarsi flattened and elongated toes furnished with broad lobes of skin.

1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. (at cited word) The lobe of a cam-wheel is the portion of curve between two minor distances from the centre of rotation, and including a major distance between them. If the wheel has n lobes, then 2 π/n is the lobe-angle and there are n lobes in a revolution.

1889 Nature 3 Oct. 558 The moraines can be traced around continuously from one lobe to another.

1877 J. Wells Bible Echoes iv. 47 You have often seen little lobes of gum on the bark of such trees as the fir-tree.

1926 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 5 297 It is interesting to observe the variation in the diagrams... A lobe starts as a small bud, it grows in size until it reaches the unit circle, it then becomes dented.

1947 J. S. Hall Radar Aids to Navigation i. 13 All antennas radiate small amounts of power in directions other than the main lobe.

1959 R. D. Davies & H. P. Palmer Radio Stud. Universe iii. 39 In the simplest form of interferometer each narrow lobe of the aerial polar diagram produces its own small drift curve.

1968 Radio Communication Handbk. (ed. 4) xiii. 40/2 With increased spacing between the two aerials, more lobes appear... This type of pattern is not very useful, but if the intervening space is filled with aerials spaced λ/2, one pair of lobes grows at the expense of all the others, giving a sharp main beam with a number of relatively small minor lobes.

1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. xxvii In minuscule of the eighth and ninth centuries a is a pointed letter, the back of which projects above the place at which it is joined by the lobe.

1969 M. B. Parkes Eng. Cursive Bk. Hands 1250–1500 p. xxvi The letter b comprises a stem or mainstroke which rises above the general level of the other letters and a lobe made with a curved stroke to the right of the stem.