globe 
Remember thee? 
Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat 
In this distracted ylobe [head], Shak., Hamlet, i. 5. 
The other [the guelder-rose] tall, 
And throwing up into the darkest gloom . . . 
Her silver globes. Coivper, Task, vi. 155. 
Especially (a) A spherical glass shade for a lamp. (6) A 
large globular glass receptacle filled with water, in which 
fish are placed for exhibition, or which is used as a magni- 
fying glass or illuminator. 
This consists in filling a large transparent glass globe 
with clear water, and placing it in such a manner between 
the lamp and the workman that the light, after passing 
through the globe, may fall directly on the block. 
Chatto, Wood Engraving, p. 574. 
3. The earth: usually with the definite article. 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve. 
Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. 
Trade is the golden girdle of the globe. 
Cowper, Charity, 1. 86. 
4. An artificial sphere on whose surface is 
drawn a map or representation of the earth or 
of the heavens, call- 
ed in the former case 
a terrestrial globe, and 
in the \&tter& celestial 
globe. Terrestrial globes 
are made so as to revolve 
freely about an axis rep- 
resenting that of the 
earth. This axis turns in 
a vertical brass circle di- 
vided into degrees, or 
smaller divisions ; and 
this represents the merid- 
ian of any station. This 
meridian has a motion in 
its own plane, so that the 
axis can be brought into 
parallelism with that of 
the earth at the assumed 
station. The meridian 
moves in a fixed horizon- 
tal circle of wood, called 
the horizon, which is di- 
vided into signs, days, etc. Terrestrial Globe. 
Cheaper globes are made 
without these circles. Celestial globes of the ordinary 
kind, with the drawing, as in terrestrial globes, on the 
outer or convex surface, represent the stars as they would 
appear in a mirror, or as if viewed from without the ce- 
lestial sphere, and not as they appear on a map of the 
heavens; but globes are also made with the heavenly 
bodies represented on the inner surface as they appear 
from the earth. 
In the next roome ... is very cunningly made in brasse, 
a Globe or Spheare of the world, both heaven and earth. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 17. 
I suppose you've been taught music, and the use of the 
globes, and French, and all the usual accomplishments. 
Mrs. GaskeU, Wives and Daughters, I. 62. 
5. In her., same as mound. 6f. A mass; com- 
pany ; group ; throng ; body. 
Tho [watres] that camen fro aboue shulen stond togidre 
in a glob. Wyclif, Josh. iii. 13 (Oxf.X 
In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best 
examples, for imitation is a globe of precepts. 
Bacon, Great Place (ed. 1887). 
Straight a fiery globe 
Of angels on full sail of wing new nigh. 
Milton, P. R., iv. 581. 
Globe Of compression, an exploded military mine in 
which the crater-radius is greater than the line of least 
resistance. Also called overcharged mine. See mine. 
Horizon of a globe. See horizon. Meridian of aglobe. 
See meridian. = Syn. 1 and 2. Globe, Sphere, Orb, Ball. 
Globe and sphere represent that which is either perfectly 
round or closely approaches roundness : as, the earth is not 
a true sphere. Ball is freer in this respect: as, the eyeball; 
the ball of the foot ; the Rugby foot-ball is oval. A globe 
is often solid, a sphere often hollow. The secondary senses 
of globe are physical ; those of sphere are moral. Sphere 
is the term of geometry and astronomy ; orb, of poetry, 
heraldry, and ancient astronomy. See earthl. 
She is spherical, like a globe. Shak., C. of E., ill. 2. 
The Lieutenant's evidence was as round, complete, and 
lucid as a Japanese sphere of rock-crystal. 
O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 55. 
Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, 
And watches, as it moves, the orb of day. 
Dr. E. Darwin, Loves of the Plants. 
A man whom both the waters and the wind, 
In that vast tennis-court, hath made the ball 
For them to play upon. Shot., Pericles, ii. 1. 
3. World, etc. See earthl. 
globe (glob), v. ; pret. and pp. 
ing. [<. globe, .] I. trans. 1. 
round ball or sphere ; gather r 
circle; conglobate. [Rare.] 
The great stars that globed themselves in Heaven. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. To raise as a globe or sphere. [Rare.] 
I have giv'n it the name of a liquid thing, yet it is not 
incontinent to bound itself, as hurried things are, but 
hath in it a most restraining and powerful abstinence to 
start back, and glob itself upward from the mixture of 
. glob- 
To form into a 
round or into a 
any ungenerous and unbeseeming motion, or any soile 
wherewith it may peril to stain itself. 
Milton, Church-Government. 
II. intrans. To become round or globe- 
shaped. Mrs. Browning. [Rare.] 
globe-amaranth (gl6b'am"a-ranth), n. The 
plant (iomjihrena globosa, natural order Ama- 
ranthacea", well known for its abundant round 
heads of purple and white flowers, very durable 
after being gathered, and hence used as im- 
mortelles. 
globe-animal (glob'an'i-mal), n. One of certain 
minute globular plants of tne genus Volvox, for- 
merly supposed to be animals, as V. globator. 
globe-cock (glob'kok), . Originally the name 
of a cock in the form of a sphere moved by a 
stem, but now of a circular disk forming only 
a zonal segment of a sphere, for the same use. 
E. H. Knight. 
globe-daisy (glob'da"zi), n. The plant Globu- 
laria rulgaris. See Globularia. 
globe-fish (glob'fish), n. A gymnodont plecto- 
gnath fish of either of the families Tetrodontidce 
and Diodon tidce. These fishes are so named from their 
capacity for inflating themselves by swallowing ah*, the 
whole body or much of it becoming blown up like a bal- 
loon. In some cases, as that of Diodon, the fish assumes 
an almost perfectly globular form. See Diodon. Also 
called swell-fith, swell-toad, egg-fish, bottle-fish, bellows-fish, 
blower, etc. 
globe-flower (glob'flou'er), n. 1. The Trollius 
Europceus, a ranunculaceous plant of Great Brit- 
ain and the mountains 
of central Europe, with 
deeply lobed leaves and 
pale-yellow flowers. 
The conspicuous colored pet- 
als are incurved, giving the 
flowers a globular form. It 
is often cultivated in gar- 
dens. A\BO globe-ranunculus. 
The globe-flower, the pur- 
ple geranium, the heath, and 
the blue forget-me-not span- 
gled the ground. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, 
[p. 290. 
2. The globe-amaranth, 
Gomphrena globosa. 
globe-lightning (glob'- 
lit'ning), n. Lightning 
which assumes a spheri- 
cal shape. See lightning. 
But the most mysterious phenomenon is what goes by 
the name of globe lightning or "fire-ball," a phenomenon 
lasting sometimes for several seconds, and therefore of a 
totally different character from that of any other form of 
lightning. P. O. Tail, Encyc. Brit, XXIII. 330. 
globe-ranunculus (glob'ra-nun'ku-lus), n. 
Same as globe-flower, 1. 
globerdet, See gtowbird. 
globe-runner (glob'run'er), n. A gymnastic 
performer who stands upon a large round ball 
and moves the ball with himself forward by 
the motion of his feet. 
globe-sight (glob'sit), . A form of front sight 
for small-arms, consisting of a small ball on one 
end of a pin, or of a disk with a central hole 
set in a tube with open ends. 
globe-slater (gl6b'sla"ter), n. A sessile-eyed 
isopod crustacean of the genus Sphceroma. 
globe-thistle (glob'this"!), n. A plant of the 
genus Echinops, natural order Composite: so 
called from the thistle-like foliage and the glob- 
ular form of the flower-heads. See cut under 
Echinops. 
globe-trotter (glob'trot'er), n. A tourist who 
goes about from country to country all over 
the world ; one who roams over the world for 
pleasure or recreation. [Humorous.] 
The inevitable steamboat and the omnivorous globe- 
trotter. The Academy, March 17, 18S8, p. 182. 
globe-trotting (glob'trot'ing), n. The prac- 
tice of roaming round the world. [Humorous.] 
In fact globe-trotting, as the Americans somewhat irrev- 
erently term it, is now frequently undertaken as a mere 
holiday trip. The Academy, Sept. 22, 1888, p. 183. 
globe-tube (glob'tub), n. A spherical lens, or 
a lens of very wide angle, mounted for photo- 
graphic work. 
It is asserted that the new globe-tubes, the Invention of 
C. C. Harrison, have an aperture of ninety degrees. 
Silver Sunbeam, p. 41. 
globe-valve (glob'valv), . A valve having a 
casing approximately globular in form. 
globewise (gldb'wiz), adv. After the fashion 
or form of a globe. 
In the Orangerie were very large Trees, and two pair of 
Mirtles in Cases, cut Globeiviite, the best and biggest I had 
seen. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 192. 
globi, . Plural of glob us. 
globigerine 
globical (glob'i-kal), (i. [< glolir + -ic-al.\ In 
her., having the outer bounding line circular, 
whether continuous or broken. 
Globicephalinae (glo-bi-sef-a-li'ne), n. pi. 
[NL., < Globicephtiliis + -inee.] A subfamily of 
Delphinidte, typified by the genus Globicephalus, 
having the second and third digits of the ma- 
nus with more than six phalanges; the caaing- 
whales, grampuses, or pilot-whales. 
globicephaline (glo-bi-sef'a-lin), a. [As Glo- 
bieephalus + -ine.] Having a globose head, as 
a cetacean ; specifically, of or pertaining to the 
Globicephalinii'. 
Globicephalus (glo-bi-sef'a-l u8 )> n. [NL., < L. 
globus, a ball, + Gr. KftpaM/, head.] 1 . A genus of 
delphinoid odontocete cetaceans,containing the 
caaing- orpilot- whales, of which the best-known 
species is G. melas or svineval. Their technical char- 
acters are : 58 or 69 vertebrae, of which the cervicals are 
Globe-flower ( Trollitu Euro, 
pans}. 
Blackfish (Globicephalus tnelas or svinrval). (From Report of 
U. S. Fish Commission, 1884.) 
mostly ankylosed, the dorsals 11 in number, and the lum- 
bars only about as long as broad ; teeth 32 to 48 in number, 
restricted to the anterior half of each jaw, small, conical, 
and curved ; flippers verylong and narrow, with the second 
digit the longest, and consisting of 12 or 13 phalanges ; the 
dorsal fin long, low, and triangular ; and the head globose, 
whence the name. Though related to the orcas or killers, 
the species of Globicephahts are timid and inoffensive, 
feeding chiefly upon cephalopoda, and gregarious. The 
described species are numerous, but not well made out ; 
some of them are called blaclcfixh, cowfiish, and grampus. 
Also Globiocephalus. 
2. [/. c.] A member of this genus : as, the short- 
ftnned globicephalus, G. brachyptents. 
globiferous (glo-bif'e-rus), a. [< L. globus, a 
ball, +ferre = E. bear 1 .'] In entom., having, in 
addition to one or two small joints, a very 
large globose joint which bears a bristle : ap- 
plied to inversatile or stiff antennae so charac- 
terized. 
aiobigerina (gloVi-je-rl'nii), , [NL., < L. glo- 
bus, a ball, + gerere, carry, + -ina 1 .] 1. The 
typical genus of Globigerinidce, originally re- 
garded as a genus of cephalopods. jyOrbigny, 
1826. 2. [i.e.] An individual of this genus: 
used chiefly in collective compounds: as, glo- 
bigerina-mud. 
Glbbigerinse (glob'i-je-rl'ne), n. pi. [NL., pi. 
of globigerina.] Same as Globigerinidce. 
It is no less certain that at all depths down to 2400 fath- 
oms or thereabouts, Globigerinae in all stages of growth 
and containing more or less protoplasmic matter are found 
at the bottom, mixed with the cases of the surface Diatoms 
and the skeletons of Radiolaria. The proportion of Glo- 
bigerinte, Orbulinse, and Pulvinularite in the deep-sea mud 
increases with the depth, until, at depths beyond 1000 
fathoms, the sea-bottom is composed of a fine chalky ooze 
made up of little more than the remains of these Forami- 
nifera and their associated Diatoms and Kadiolaria. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 80. 
globigerina-mud (glob"i-je-ri'na-mud), n. A 
chalky mud or ooze occurring in enormous de- 
posits on the bottom of the ocean, largely con- 
sisting of the debris of the shells of Globige- 
rinidce. 
globigerina-ooze (glob"i-je-ri'na-8z), n. Same 
as globigerina-mud. 
If we suppose the globe to be uniformly covered with 
an ocean 1000 fathoms deep, the solid land covering its 
bottom would be out of the reach of rain, waves, and other 
agents of degradation, and no sedimentary deposits would 
be formed. But if Foraminifera and diatoms, following 
the same laws of distribution as at present obtained, were 
introduced into this ocean, the fine rain of their silicious 
and calcareous hard parts would commence, and a cir- 
cumpolar cap of silicious deposit would begin to make its 
appearance in the north and in the south while the in- 
termediate zone would be covered with globigerina ooze, 
containing a comparatively small proportion of silicious 
matter. The thickness of the .. . beds thus formed would 
be limited only by time and the depth of the ocean. . . . 
The beds of chalk which underlie the nummulitic lime- 
stone and occupy a still greater area are essentially Iden- 
tical with the globigerina ooze, the species of Globigerina 
found in it being undistinguishable from those now liv- 
ing. Huxley, Anat. Invert., pp. 80-82. 
globigerina-shells (glob*i-je-ri'na-shelz), n.pl. 
The shells or tests of dead globigerines from 
which the animal has disappeared, and which 
compose globigerina-mud in a more or less frag- 
mentary or decomposed state. 
globigerine (glo-bij'e-rin), a. and n. [< Globi- 
gerina.'] I. a. Pertaining to or characteristic 
of the Globigerinidce. 
Which is made up of an aggregation of globigerine cham- 
bers. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., i 488. 
