globigerine 
II. . One of the GUibi//< rimr. 
Also f/lobigerinidan. 
globigerinid (glob-i-jer'i-nid), n. A foraminifer 
of the family Globigerinidoe ; a globigerine. 
Globigerinida(glob"i-je-rin'i-da), n.fl. [NL.] 
Same as Globigerinidce. 
GlobigerinidiB(glob"i-je-rin'i-de),n.;>J. [NL.,< 
Globigerina + -ida;.] A family of chiefly pela- 
gic foraminiferousrhizopods, with the perforate 
test free and calcareous, its several chambers 
inflated or globose and arranged in a turbinate 
spiral, the aperture simple or multiple and con- 
spicuous, opening into an umbilical depression, 
and no supplementary skeleton or canal sys- 
tem. The family occurs from the Trias to the present 
day, and the remains of its individuals constitute much 
of the chalky mud found at the bottom of the sea, as well 
as vast extents of limestone. Like other foraminifers, 
they were originally mis- 
taken for and described 
as minute cephalopoda, 
owing to the form of the 
chambered shells. But 
they are protozoan ani- 
malcules,whose soft parts 
consist of apparently 
strueturelessprotoplasm, 
like that of other fora- 
minifers and Of rhizopods GIoHgtrina bulloifrs. 
in general, which has the 
power of secreting lime and building of this substance a 
shell of characteristic form. The Qlobigerinidas are prom- 
inent, among many related forms of foraminifers, for the 
profusion in which they occur, their myriads having fur- 
nished the material for considerable of those parts of the 
earth's crust which consist of limestone. In this respect 
the globigerines resemble nummulites, but they are still 
in existence, and in the present formation of globigerina- 
mud at the bottom of the ocean is witnessed a process by 
which solid rock may be formed from the hard chalky 
shells of microscopic organisms whose soft parts have long 
since perished. See Foraminifera. Also Vlobigerince, 
Globigerinida. 
globigerinidan (glob'i-je-rin'i-dan), a. and n. 
Same as globigerine. 
Globigerinidea (glob-i-jer-i-nid'e-a), n. pi. 
[NL., < Globigerina + -id-ea.] The Globige- 
rinidie regarded as an order of perforate Fora- 
minifera. 
globigerinidean (glob-i-jer-i-nid'e-an), a. and 
n. L a. Of or pertaining to the Glofrigerinidea; 
globigerine, iii a broad sense. 
II. . A member of the Globigerinidea. 
globin (glo'bin), n. [< L. globus, a tall (see 
globe), + -in 2 .] The proteid substance which 
with hematin makes up the larger part of the 
red blood-corpuscles. It is possibly a mixture 
of several distinct proteids. 
Globiocephalus (gl6 // bi-o-sef 'a-lus), n. An 
incorrect form of Globicephalus, 1. J. E. Gray, 
1864. 
globirdt (glo'berd), n. See glowbird. 
globist (glo'bist), n. [<. globe + -ist.~\ One who 
understands the use of globes. Dames. [Bare.] 
Being a good globist, hee will quickly find the zenith, 
the distances, the climes, and the parallels. 
Howell, Forreine Travel], App. 
globo-cumulus (gl6"bo-ku'mu-lus), n. A form 
of cloud. See cloudl, 1 (h). ' 
globoid (glo'boid), a. and n. [< L. globus, a ball 
(see globe), + Gr. tlSoq, form.] I. a. Approach- 
ing a globular form ; globe-shaped ; spheroid. 
These bush-retreats of the mice were all distinctly globu- 
lar, or globoid. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 824. 
II. n. In bot., an amorphous or globular con- 
cretion of a double phosphate of calcium and 
magnesium, associated with the protein-crys- 
tals in protein-granules. 
globose (glo-bos'), a. and n. [< L. globosus, 
round as a ball: see globons.~\ 1. a. 1. Like 
or resembling a globe; round or spherical in 
form; specifically, in common use, nearly but 
not quite spherical or globular. 
Then form'd the moon 
Globose, and every magnitude of stars. 
MUton, P. L., vii. 357. 
The leek with crown globose, and reedy stem. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 40, 
2. In zool. : (a) Rounded and very prominent ; 
projecting from a surface like a sphere par- 
tially buried in it: as, globose eyes, coxse, etc. 
(6) Having a globose part : as, the globose cu- 
rassow, Crax globicera. 
n.t n. A globe. [Rare.] 
Regions to which 
All thy dominion, Adam, is no more 
Than what this garden is to all the earth, 
And all the sea, from one entire globote 
Stretch'd into longitude. Milton, P. L., v. 753. 
globosely (glo-bos'li), a. In a globose manner; 
so as to be globose, 
globosity (glo-bos'i-ti), n. [= OF. globosite = 
Pg. globosiddde = It. globosita, < LL. globosi- 
2541 
ttt(t-)s, < L. globosus, round as a ball: see glo- 
bose.} The quality of being globose; sphericity. 
For why the same eclipse . . . should be seen to them 
that live one degree more westerly, when the sun is but 
flve degrees above the horizon, ... no account can be 
given but the globosity of the earth. 
Kay, Works of Creation, ii. 
globospherite (glo-bo-sfe'rit), n. [< L. globus, 
a ball, + spheera, sphere, 4- -ite 2 .] A name 
given by Vogelsang to an aggregation of glob- 
ulites into spherical forms, the individual con- 
stituents being arranged in lines radiating from 
the center of the group. 
globoust (glo'bus), a. [< OF. globeux = Sp. Pg. 
It. globoso, < L. globosus, round as a ball (> E. 
globose, q. v. ), < globus, a ball : see globe. ] Same 
as globose. 
Wide over all the plain, and wider far 
Than all this globous earth in plain outspread 
(Such are the courts of God), the angelic throng 
Dispersed in bands. Milton, P. L., v. 649. 
globular (glob'u-lar), a. [= F. globulaire = Pg. 
globular = It. g'lobulare, < NL. globularis, < L. 
globulus, a little ball: see globule.] Globe- 
shaped ; having the form of a ball or sphere ; 
round; spherical. 
The figure of the atoms of all visible fluids, qua fluids, 
seemeth to be globular. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, i. 2. 
The form of the body is usually oblong, but when alarmed 
it has a power of inflating the belly to & globular shape of 
great size. Pennant, Brit. Zool., The Globe Tetrodon. 
Globular Chart. See chart. Globular sailing, the art 
of sailing in great circles : a phrase of navigation former- 
ly employed to denote the sailing from one place to an- 
other over an arc of a great circle, which is the shortest 
distance between two places. 
Globularia (glob-u-la'ri-a), n. [NL., neut. 
pi. of globularis, < L. globulus, a little ball: see 
globule.'] 1 . A genus of gamopetalous herbs or 
small shrubs, of the order Selaginacece, includ- 
ing a dozen species of the Mediterranean re- 
gion. They have small blue flowers in terminal globu- 
lar heads, with irregularly lobed corolla, didynamous sta- 
mens, and an indehiscent one-celled and one-seeded fruit. 
<?. vulgaris, a common species of southern Europe, is some- 
times called the globe-daisy. The leaves of O. Alyjntm. 
are used as a substitute for senna. 
2. A genus of mollusks. Swainson, 1840. 
globularity (glob-u-lar'i-ti), n. [(globular + 
-ity.] The state or quality of being globular; 
globosity; sphericity. [Rare.] 
globularly (glob'u-lar-li), adv. In a globular 
or spherical form ; spherically. 
globularness (glob'u-lSr-nes), n. The quality 
of being globular; sphericity. 
globule (glob'ul), n. [< F. globule = Sp. gUbulo 
= Pg. It. globulo, < L. globulus, a little ball, dim. 
of globus, a ball: see globe.] 1. A little globe 
or sphere ; a small or minute body of matter of 
a spherical form. 
Hailstones have opaque globules of snow in their centre. 
Newton, Opticks. 
2. Specifically (a) In anat. and physics, a 
blood-disk or -corpuscle, or a lymph-corpuscle. 
(b) In bot., the antheridium of Charaeece. (c) 
In homeopathic med., a minute pill consisting of 
sugar of milk combined with the active princi- 
ple of some drug. 
globulet (glob'u-let), n. [< globule + -et.] A 
little globule; a minute globular particle. 
Crabb. 
globulin, globuline (glob'u-lin), n. [< globule 
+ -in?, -ine 2 .] 1. The general name of a class 
of native proteids allied to the albumins, but 
distinguished from them by being insoluble in 
pure water. The globulins are soluble in weak acids 
and alkalis and dilute salt-solutions, but most of them 
are precipitated when their solutions are saturated with 
salt. They include vitellin, myosin, paraglobulin, and oth- 
er bodies. 
2. A protein body occurring, mixed with albu- 
min, in the cells of the crystalline lens of the 
eye (whence it is also called crystalliu). it re- 
sembles albumin, but differs from it in being precipitated 
from both acid and alkaline solutions by exact neutraliza- 
tion, and in being completely thrown down from its solu- 
tions by carbonic-acid gas. 
3. In bot., a name given by Turpin to starch- 
granules, and by Kieser to chlorophyl-granules, 
and now applied to* such proteids as are solu- 
ble in a strong solution of salt, but not in pure 
water. 
globulism (glob'u-lizm), n. [< globule + -ism.] 
The practice of administering medicine in 
globules or very small pills : a term sometimes 
applied to the practice of homeopathy. 
globulite (glob'u-lit), n. [< globule + -ite'*.] In 
lithol., the simplest and most rudimentary form 
developed in the process of devitrification. See 
that word. Globulites are very minute rounded bodies, 
destitute of crystalline structure. They retain the name 
ylobulitc so long as they remain irregularly scattered 
gloeocapsoid 
about and disconnected from one another. When grouped 
together, they assume various forms to which names have 
been assigned, of which cumulite and inurgarite are the 
most important. See these words and mierolith. 
globulitic (glob-u-lit'ik), a. [< globulite + -ic.] 
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing 
globulites. 
Between these microlites, arranged in a basaltic fashion, 
could be detected a trace of pyroxene, apparently mono- 
clinic, with considerable brownish glass and dark glubu- 
litic base. Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., XXVIII. 256. 
Globulitic structure. See rock-structures, under struc- 
ture. 
globuloid (glob'u-loid), a. [< L. globulus, a lit- 
tle ball (see globule), + Gr. fMof, form.] Re- 
sembling a globule or globules. 
globulose (glob'u-los), a. Same as globulous: 
as, the globulose curassow, Crax globulosa. Scla- 
ter. 
globulous (glob'u-lus), a. [< L. as if "globu- 
losus, < globulus, a little ball: see globule.] Hav- 
ing the form of a small sphere ; round; globular. 
[Rare.] 
The whiteness of such globulous particles proceeds from 
the air included in the froth. Boyle. 
globulousness (glob'u-lus-nes), n. The state 
or quality of being globulous. [Rare.] 
The same drops will retain the same figure on stone, or 
Iron, yet they will readily adhere to gold, and loose their 
qlobulousness upon it, though gold be a far drier body than 
wood. Boyle, Works, II. 664. 
globus (glo'bus), .; pi. globi (-bl). [L.: see 
globe.] 1. A ball; a globe; a globose body. 
Specifically 2. In her., same as mound oio- 
bus hy steri'cus, in pathol., a sensation in hysteria as of 
a ball fixed in the throat, supposed to be due to spasm of 
the esophagus. Globus major, the head of the epididy- 
mis. Globus minor, the tail of the epididymis. 
globy (glo'bi), a. [< globe + -y 1 .] Resembling 
or pertaining to a globe ; round ; orbicular. 
Your hair, whose globy rings 
He [Love] flying curls, and crispeth with his wings. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, xxxvi. 
Torturing convulsions from his globy eyes 
Had almost drawn their spheres. 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 1. 
glochidate, a. See glochidiate. 
glochidia, n. Plural of glochidium. 
glochidial (glo-kid'i-al), a. [< glochidium + -al. ] 
Having the character of a glochidium ; being 
in the encysted and quasi-parasitic stage, as 
the larva of some lamellibranchs, known as a 
glochidium. 
glochidiate, glochidate (glo-kid'i-at, glok'i- 
dat), a. [< glochis (with assumed stem "glochid-) 
or glochidium + -ate.] In bot. and zool., barbed 
at the tip, as a hair or bristle. 
glochidioUS (glo-kid'i-us), a. Same as glochid- 
iate. 
glochidium (glo-kid'i-um), n. ; pi. glochidia (-a,). 
[NL., < Gr. yl<jf (yAu^-), only in pi. y/Ui^ef, the 
beard of corn, yAu^f, a projecting point (see 
glochis), + -5<oi>, dim. suffix.] 1. [cop.] In zool., 
a generic name given to the young of certain 
fresh-water mussels, as Unio and Anodonta, 
which are hatched in the gills of the parent, 
and were at one time supposed to be parasites. 
Sathke, 1797. 2. In bot., a hair-like appendage 
to the massul of heterosporous Filicinea;, by 
which the massulse attach themselves to the 
macrospores after both have been discharged 
into the water. 
glochis (glo'kis), .; pi. glochines (-ki-nez). 
[NL., < Gr. yAof/f, yXu^jv (y/u;tw-), a projecting 
point. Cf. glochidium.] In entom., a barbed 
point ; a spine or mucro furnished with, one or 
more barbs slanting backward. 
glodt, glodet. Obsolete strong preterit of glide. 
Chaucer. 
gloea (gle'a), n. [NL., < Gr. yAoia, glue; cf. 
y/Wf, glue, gluten: see glue.] Animal muci- 
lage ; a cohesive mucoid substance secreted by 
many low animals, as protozoans, forming a 
protective case or investment, as a tube, shield, 
or lorica. See zooglcea. 
Gloeocapsa (gle-o-kap'sa), n. [NL., < Gr. y/>.oz, 
glue, + L. capsa, a case : see glcea and case 2 .] 
A genus of bluish-green alg, comprising fresh- 
water and marine species. The plants consist of 
spherical cells united into families and surrounded by a 
gelatinous substance which forms concentric layers. They 
are reproduced by cell-division, which takes place in all 
directions. According to Schwendener's theory, species 
of this genus constitute the gonidia of certain genera of 
lichens. 
gloeocapsin (gle-o-kap'sin), n. [< Glceoeapsa 
+ -tn 2 .] A red or blue coloring matter found 
in Glosocapsa and some other algse. 
gloeocapsoid (gle-o-kap'soid), a. Belonging to 
or resembling the genus Glosocapsa : said of the 
gonidia of certain lichens. 
