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▪ I. globe, n.|gləʊb|
Also 7 glob.
[a. F. globe, ad. L. globus a round body or mass; a ball, sphere, etc. The ME. glob(be, glub(be, glub, used by Wyclif to render L. globus in the sense ‘body of men’, etc. is prob. etymologically distinct.]
1. a. A body having (accurately or approximately) the form of a sphere.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. Defin., But in a Globe, (whiche is a bodie rounde as a bowle) there is but one platte forme, and one bounde. 1559W. 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. 1595Spenser Col. Clout 613 The fume..mounts..In rolling globes vp to the vauted skies. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 79 The outward roofe is divided into foure globes, covered with leade. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. 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. 1783Franklin in Ellis Orig. Lett. (1843) 424 The experiment of a vast Globe [a balloon] sent up into the air, much talk'd of here at present. 1784Cowper Task vi. 155 The other tall [foot-note The Guelder Rose], and throwing up into the darkest gloom Of neighbouring Cypress..Her silver globes. 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art. I. 277 The earth is not a perfect globe. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. iii. 139 Bright golden globes Of fruit, suspended in their own green heaven. 1854Tomlinson Arago's Astron. 55 The sun is an immense globe, 1,300,000 times greater than the earth. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 616 In the form of a globe, round as from a lathe.
b. fig. A complete or perfect body, a ‘full-orbed’ combination.
1607–12Bacon Ess., Gt. Place (Arb.) 284/1 In the discharge of thie place, sett before thee the best Exemples; For Imitacion is a Globe of Preceptes. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 300 No sooner did the force of so much united excellence meet in one globe of brightnesse and efficacy, but [etc.].
†c. A fire-ball (see quot.). Obs.
1563W. Fulke Meteors (1640) 9 b, Of Shields, Globes or bowles. These Meteors also have their name of their fashion, because they..appeare to be round.
†d. The sphere of a planet. Obs. rare.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 41 The Fyre..shal ascend above them, and be next the Globe of the Mone.
2. a. the (or this) globe, the earth. † Formerly often the globe of (the) earth, globe of the world; the earthly globe or terrestrial globe (cf. ball n. 2).
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 9 The hole globe of the world hath been sayled aboute. 1575App. & Virg. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 113 Gods that rule the skies, The Globe, and eke the Element. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 102 We the Globe can compasse soone, Swifter then the wandring Moone. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §192 (1810) 204 He was the second that circumpassed the earthly globe. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 23 The sun, from east to west who all doth see, On this low glob sees nothing like to thee. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess Mar 1 Apr., I wish..you were..regular in letting me know what passes on your side of the globe. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 219 The same set of manners will follow a nation..over the whole globe. 1769Wesley Jrnl. 8 Sept. (1827) III. 369 The globe of earth..can hardly afford a more pleasing scene. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 183 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day. 1891Speaker 2 May 534/1 The harnessing of electricity to the commerce of the globe.
b. One of the planetary or celestial bodies.
c1566J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World S iv b, If thou art minded to surpasse al ye globes of the firmament, and see what is there contained. 1651Davenant Gondibert ii. v. xx, Those vaste bright Globes..Were made but to attend our little Ball. 1840J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1842) V. iv. 56 Supposing a man told that he should suddenly be carried off to some unknown globe in the heavens.
3. A spherical structure on whose surface is depicted the geographical configuration of the earth (terrestrial globe), or the arrangement of the constellations (celestial globe).
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.
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 8 In the moste parte of Globes and Mappes they see the continente or fyrme land. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 114 note, An objection against the terestriall Globe. 1592Dee Comp. Rehears. (Chetham) 28 Two globes of Gerardus Mercators best making on which were my divers reformations both geographicall, and celestiall. 1625N. Carpenter Geog. Del. (1635) 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. 1665Hooke Microgr. 218, I have observ'd..several magnitudes of Stars less then those of the six magnitudes commonly recounted in the Globes. 1701Wallis in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 329 With arithmetick, and the use of the globes. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 25 The celestial and terrestrial globes, the largest that had then ever been printed. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. I. xi. 131, I suppose you've been taught music, and the use of globes, and French, and all the usual accomplishments.
4. The golden ball or orb borne along with the sceptre as an emblem of sovereignty (cf. ball n. 3).
1614Selden Titles Hon. 158 In Christianitie there is now appropriated to supreme Princes a Globe, and an infixt Crosse. 1636Massinger Gt. Dk. Florence i. i, If I had beene the heire Of all the Globes and Scepters mankind bowes to, At my best you had deserv'd me. 1688Lond. 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. 1753Scots Mag. Mar. 156/1 The globe and cross..shew him to have been a..King. 1780Cowper Table T. 39 The globe and sceptre in such hands misplaced, Those ensigns of dominion, how disgraced! 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xxxv, With crown, with sceptre, and with globe, Emblems of empery.
5. Anat. globe of the eye, ocular globe, the eyeball (see quot. 1885).
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) 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. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 510/2 It [the tissue] abounds..around the globe of the eye. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 54 The globe of the eye consists of two segments, the anterior of which is more or less conical. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 468 Three females and one male..were admitted for enucleation of wasted globes. 1885Syd. Soc. Lex., Ocular globe, the eyeball after the separation of its muscles and outer connections.
6. A glass vessel of approximately spherical form; esp.a. a glass lamp-shade;
b. a vessel filled with water, used for exhibiting ornamental fish, or as a lens.
1665Hooke Microgr. Pref. E, A pretty large Globe of Glass, fill'd with exceeding clear Brine. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 142 The Globes..must be made of very thick white Glass. 1796Hist. Ned Evans I. 10, I met a post chaise and four on the turnpike road: it had globes with lights in them. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 179 This instrument consists of a very strong glass tube..and ends in a globe of 1.2 or 1.3 inch in diameter. 1839Chatto Wood Engraving viii. 652 Filling a large transparent glass-globe with clear water, and placing it in such a manner..that the light after passing through the globe, may fall directly on the block. 1873Stewart Conserv. Force i. 8 A glass globe containing numerous gold-fish. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 194 Globes are seldom used in churches. 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 592/2 It was a new lamp, with a..figured globe.
7. Mil.
†a. A kind of grenade. Obs.
1672W. T. Mil. & Mar. Discipline iii. Compl. Gunner iii. ix. 7 There is given to these sort of Globes the names of Granadoes. Ibid. iii. xiii. 10 Stinking Globes are made to annoy the Enemy.
b. globe of compression (= F. globe de compression): an overcharged mine, the explosion of which produces a crater of greater radius than depth.
1838Penny 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. 1876in Voyle Milit. Dict. s.v. Compression.
8. In imitation of a Latin use: A compact body (of persons).
1610G. Fletcher Christ's Triumph xiii, Out there flies A globe of winged Angels, swift as thought. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 512 Him round A Globe of fierie Seraphim inclos'd. 1837Blackw. Mag. XLII. 113 The Bashkirs collected into ‘globes’ and ‘turms’, as their only means of meeting the long lines of descending Chinese cavalry.
†9. Path. = globus. Obs.
1758R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic II. 122 Then they feel a sort of a Globe arise from the lower Part of the Belly to the Hyphochondria and Diaphragm.
10. attrib. and Comb.
a. General combinations, as globe-maker; globe-making vbl. n.; globe-billed, globe-cheeked, globe-engirdling, globe-girding, globe-girdling ppl. adjs.; globe-like adj.; globe-wise adv.
1847Craig, *Globe-billed curassow, in Ornithology, the Crax globicera of Linnæus, a native of Guiana.
1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 18 Around the altar prance and pace *Globe-cheekit Fun.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xix. 307 *Globe-engirdling Drake, the Nauall Palme that wonne.
1847Emerson Poems, Monadnoc Wks. (Bohn) I. 433 The alps' *globe-girding chain.
1875Temple Bar June 255 A somewhat old-fashioned house, not working any of your *globe-girdling speculative gigantic operations. 1943Amer. Mag. Mar. 98/1 A network of globe-girdling airways.
1597Drayton Heroic. Ep. iii. 29 Whilst I behold thy *Globe-like rouling eye, Thy louely cheeke (mee thinks) stands smiling by. 1620–55I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 67 Unto Vesta..they built Temples of a round Form Globelike. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden lxi. 117 The Globe-like Throat-worts..grow naturally in divers places beyond the Seas.
1740Harris in Phil. Trans. XLI. 324 The *Globe-makers might save us the Trouble and Expence of having these graduated Slips of Brass, by dividing some Meridian. 1878C. H. Coote in Trans. New Shaks. Soc. 98 It was a ‘new map’ on a new projection made by one of the most eminent globe-makers of his time.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 986/2 In the history of *globe-making, the name of Ferguson, the mathematician, has an honourable place.
1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner F vij, [Artichokes] somewhat resemble Pine-apples, consisting of many skales, compacted *Globe-wise. 1698Lister Journ. Paris (1699) 192 In the Orangerie were..two pair of Mirtles in Cases, cut Globe-wise.
b. Special combinations: globe-amaranth(us (see amaranth 3); † globe-animal, -animalcule, a minute globular locomotive organism (Volvox globator); globe-artichoke = artichoke 1; globe-cock (see quot.); globe-crowfoot = globe-flower; globe-daisy, Globularia vulgaris; † globe-dial, a sun-dial in the form of a globe; † globe-fennel, some variety of fennel; globe-fish, a fish of globular form, esp. one of the Tetrodontidæ or Diodontidæ, which assume this shape by inflation; globe-flower, Trollius europæus, a ranunculaceous plant with yellow flowers; globe-lamp, a lamp in which the light is protected by a globe; globe-lightning = fire-ball 1; globe-loadstone, a spherical magnet; globe-ranunculus = globe-flower; globe-sight, a front sight for a rifle, etc., consisting of a ball or disk; globe-slater, a sessile-eyed crustacean of the genus Sphæroma; globe-thistle, a name for species of Echinops; globe-trot v. intr. [back-formation from globe-trotter, -trotting], to go globe-trotting; also trans.; globe-trotter, one who goes globe-trotting; globe-trotting, extensive and hurried travelling over the world for the sake of sight-seeing; globe-valve (see quot.).
1733Miller Gardener's Dict. (ed. 2) I, Amarantoides, *Globe Amaranthus or Everlasting Flower. 1755Johnson (citing Miller), Globe amaranth.
1806P. Wakefield Dom. 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.
1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 275 This little cell, so well known to the older observers as the *globe-animalcule or revolving-cell.
1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 219/1 *Globe Artichoke. 1882Garden 11 Mar. 169/3 Now is a good time to make plantations of Globe Artichokes.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Globe-cock, formerly a sphere with a stem by which it was moved..now a circular disk of similar use, and retaining the name.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccli. 810 The globe flower is called..in English *Globe Crowfoote, Troll flowers, and Lockron gowlons.
Ibid. ii. cxciii. §7. 512 The blewe Daisie is called..in English blew Daisies and *Globe Daisie.
1625in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 183 For gilding and working y⊇ *globe dialls {pstlg}3. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 372/2 A Ball, or Globe Dial, to shew the Hour without a Gnomon.
1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 190 Smooth *Globe-Fennel.
1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. 142 Fishes of a hard crustaceous skin..Sphærical..[as] Orbis Scutatus, *Globe-fish. 1735Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 113 Orbis lævis variegatus: The Glob-Fish. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 289 Tetrodontidæ..have received numerous popular names, such as swell-fish, bottle-fish, bellows-fish, egg-fish, globe-fish..etc. 1597*Globe flower [see globe-crowfoot]. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. ii. 97 The..globe-flower.
1788B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1905) 381 The *globe lamps we were at first supply'd with from London. 1825H. Wilson Mem. IV. 67 This room..was lighted by large, ground-glass, French globe-lamps, suspended from the cieling. 1897Daily News 7 Jan. 6/7 The boatswain was taking a globe lamp into the forepeak.
1888Tait in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 330/1 ‘*Globe-lightning’ or ‘fireball’.
1664Power Exp. Philos. 170 Not to mention how hard a thing it is; first, to find the two Polary points in a *Globe-Loadstone [etc.].
1733Miller Gardener's Dict. (ed. 2) I, Helleboro-Ranunculus, *Globe Ranunculus vulgo.
1884Harper's Mag. Aug. 367/1 At this short distance you don't care for the peep and *globe sights.
1879Rossiter Dict. Sci. Terms s.v. Globe, *Globe-slaters = Sphæroma.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccclxii. 990 Carduus Globosus..is called in English, *Globe Thistle, and Ball-Thistle. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 47 And he that inquireth into the little bottom of the globe-thistle, may finde that gallant bush arise from a scalpe of like disposure. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 404 Common Globe-thistle is so called from the flowers growing in globular heads.
1883Manch. Guardian 6 June 6/1 He drives from London to York..and is amusing; he *globetrots and is not amusing. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Reminisc. II. 180 Nothing nowadays is easier and safer than to ‘globe⁓trot’ round the world. 1928Observer 8 Apr. 5/7 You are never instructed, never globe-trotted. 1929C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 16 To..globe-trot with the wind. 1970Oxf. Univ. Press Record xv. 3 Bill Waterfield..globe-trotted for several years after reading Botany at University College.
1875E. K. Laird (title) Rambles of a *globe-trotter in Australia, Japan, China, Java, India and Cashmere. 1883Stevenson Silverado Sq. 1 It is no place of pilgrimage for the summary globe-trotter.
1880Daily News 6 May 4/8 The season for *globe-trotting..has seriously set in.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Globe-valve, 1. A ball-valve, one of a spherical shape... 2. A valve inclosed in a globular chamber.
▪ II. globe, v.|gləʊb|
Also 7 glob.
[f. prec.; cf. L. globāre.]
1. trans. To form into a globe. Also refl.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii, Yet is it [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 itself. 1838Emerson Addr. Cambridge, Mass. Wks. (Bohn) II. 191 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 598 The great stars that globed themselves in Heaven. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career I. vii. 101 A small round brilliant moon hung almost globed in the depths of heaven.
2. intr. To assume or have the form of a globe.
1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 275 My eyes globed luminous Through orbits of blue shadow. 1889E. Arnold Lt. World v. (1891) 223 So the dew Globes on a grass-blade.
Hence ˈglobing ppl. a.
1861Thornbury Turner (1862) I. 30 The myriads of houses over which the black globing dome dominates. |