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A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon.
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Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
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An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
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A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
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Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe.
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A globefish.
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The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.
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A round model of the world; a spherical representation of the earth or heavens; as, a terrestrial or celestial globe; -- called also artificial globe.
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The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
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Consisting of land and water; as, the earth is a terraqueous globe.
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To gather or form into a globe.
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To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
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Shaped like a globe.
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Anything round, as a circle, a globe, a ring. "The golden round" [the crown].
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A plant of the genus Trollius (T. Europaeus), found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers.
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A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
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In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
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Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp.
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A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
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