G L O 
< 1 T.!T'TEP>.ING, /: Tl’.e aft of feuding forth a fplen- 
doiirj glitter, bi’ightnefs. 
tJLI'f'TERINGLY, Witli fiiining luffre. 
GLIU'BIN, a town of European Turkey, in Dal¬ 
matia: eigliteeti u'.ilcs fouth-eafl of JVIollar. 
To GL()AR, V. a. [frlocren, Dut.l Tofquint; to look 
alkew. Skinner. 
GLOAR, Difagrecably; fulfomely.—She 
fat. Scoft. 
GLOAR'AND, arij. [llie participial form in tlie 
Scotch dialeCf, from j/car, ] Squinting; flaring. ■ 
To GI.OAT.', V. n. [vvritteii perliaps for gljar.'^ To 
caft fide gla,nces, as a timorous lover: 
Teach every grace to fmile in your behalf, 
And her deluding eyes to gloat for you. Rozcc. 
GLO'BARD, /i [from ff/ore.] A glow-worm. 
GLO'B A'i'ED, adj. [from globe.'\ Formed in the fhape 
of a globe ; fpherical; fpheroidical. 
GLOB'BA, /". [the vernacular name by the Malay¬ 
ans.] In botany, a genus of the clafs diandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of feitatuinae, (canna;, JnJJ-) 
The generic characters are—Calyx ; perianthium i'upe- 
rior, one-leafed, cylindric, with a trifid mouth, penna-' 
nent. Corolla : monopetalous, cylindric, with a trifid 
equal motith. Stantina : filaments two, filiform, mid¬ 
dling in length ; antherte faflencd longitudinally to the 
filaments. Pifiillum: germ inferior; Ityle briftle-fhaped, 
of a middling length; fligma lharp. Fericarpium: cap- 
luie roundifli, three-celled, three-valved. Seeds: very 
many .—EJftntial CharaBer. Calyx fuperior, trifid; corolla 
equal, trifid; capfulc three-celled ; feeds very many. 
Species, i, Globba maranlina, or marantina globba : 
fpike terminating, eredt. Stem fimple, herbaceous. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, altogether like thofe of ma- 
ranta ; tlie petioles membranaceous and fheathing; the 
fiieaths truncate at the tip. Flowers remote, each in¬ 
volved in an ovate braCte, longer than the flower. Tlfis, 
and the fecond and third fpecics, are natives of the Eaft 
indies. 
2. Globba nutans, or nodding globba: fpike termi¬ 
nating, pendulous. Rumphius makes two varieties of 
this, the great and the linall. The former has a very 
firaight firm llem, from fourteen to eighteen feet in 
height, two inches in diameter at the bottom, naked for 
(ix feet from the root, and llout enough fOr walking 
canes; the upper part is loft, and is eaten in fome places. 
Leaves three teet long, ar.d more than two hands broad, 
thin, Imoolh, with many parallel tranfverfe veins, bend, 
ing upwards near the edge, forming flight ridges on tlte 
upper, and furrows on the lower, I'urface. The trunk 
terminates in a jointed flem, three fpans in leng'fli, with 
a narrow boat-fliaped leaf at each joint, hollowed above, 
and of a duflsy red colour. Fruit the fize of a pigeon’s 
egg, red. The leaves of the fmaller fort are more wan¬ 
dering, narrower, and draw move to a point at the bale. 
The primary lieui is two or three feet in length, and 
leailei's, producing abundance of oblong flowers, in 
bunches like the hyacinth. 
3. Globba iivifonnis, or grape globba: fpike lateral. 
Stem from leven or eight to twelve or fourteen feet 
high, the thicknefs of a finger. Leaves from fourteen 
to lixteen inches long, and from four to fix fingers 
broad, fmooth, and dark green above, pale green and 
lanuginofe beneath. L he fruClification ilfues from the 
fide of the ftem, eighteen inches or two feet above the 
root, in a iputhed bunch or fpike a hand in length, con¬ 
taining many white flowers, which are fucceeded by 
fruit refembling grapes, but larger, white, becoming 
black, or of the colour of fmoke, and fometimes eaten. 
4. Globba japonica, or Japan globba: raceme ter¬ 
minating, drooping; leaves fwordtlhaped, entire. The 
flem is Iheathed with leaves, fimple, round, llreaked, 
Imooth, upright, two feet high, or more. Leaves few, 
acuminate, imooth, very finely ihcaked obliquely, a 
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little longer than tlie flicathing petioles, very tliin, 
except the midrib,'wliieit is thick, deep green above, 
paler beneath, a foot long and two inclies broad. Flow¬ 
ers many. Seeds liirrounded by a v hite connetting 
membrane, angular, fmooth, brown. Nitive of Jajian; 
where the fruit is ripe in DeCemticr and January, 
GLOBE, /, \_glolje, Fr. globus, I.at.] A fpliero ; a 
hall ; a round body ; a body of wliich every part of the 
furface' is at the fame diflance from tlic centre. The 
terraqueous ball : 
Tlie youth, wliofe fortune the vaft obey’d, 
Finding his royal enemy betray’d, 
Wept at liis fall. n Stepney. 
A fphere, in which tlie various regions of the earth are 
geographicaily depicted, and lienee termed' the tcrrcjlrini 
globe ; or in wliich the conlteiiations of the heavens aie 
laid down, according to tliejr pofitions in the firmament, 
and tlience denominated the cclejlial globe : 
The aftrologer who fpclls tlie ftars, 
Miflakes h\% globe, and in her brighter eye 
liitcrpi'ets heav’n’s phyfiognomy, Clcaveland. 
[In medicine.] A ball v/hicli feems to amend trom the 
flomacli into tlie throat in hyllerical diforders, called 
the globus hyfterkus. [I:i taCtics.] A body ot loUUers 
drawn into a circle : 
A globe of fiery feraphim inclos’d, 
With bright imblazoning, and horrent arms. Milton, 
The terreftrial and celeftial globes are Iiiglily neceflary 
for the Itudy of geograpliy. The celeftial globe ferves 
to exfilain all the phenomena ariling from the diurnal 
motion of the earth about its axis, andalfo the variation 
of feafons arifing from its motion about the fun, only 
luppoling the fun to move in the ecliptic inftead ot the 
earth, which will not alter any of the appearances. To 
each globe there is a-circular flat piece of wood, the 
plane of whicli patfes through the centre of the globe, 
on which are marked the days of the montli, and cor- 
refponding to them the figiis of tlie ecliptic tvhere the 
fun is on tJiofe days ; the points of the compals are alfo 
put upon the fame piece. This is called tlie ; 
at riglit angles to which there is a circular piece of 
brafs, on which the globe hangs, called the brazen me. 
ridian ; it is fupported at the lowefl; point on a roller, 
on wi'iicli it turns in its own plane, and pailes tlirougli 
tlie horizon in two grooves cut for that purpofe ; on this 
circle the globe is fupported by the extremities ot its 
axis; and the axis palfes through the brazen meridian, 
and carries'an index round with it over a circular plate 
which is divided into hours, &c. On each globe there 
are two circles, one reprefenting tiie ecliptic, with the 
charaifters of the figns upon it, and the other tlie equator^ 
botli having their refped.ive degrees correiftiy marked. 
To each of tliefe circles, on tlie celeftial globe, iecon- 
daries are drawn to every lo or 15 degrees; but on the 
terrellrial globe, they are drawn only to the equator. 
There is alfo a flat piece of brafs, called the quadrant of 
altitude, which is occafionally fixed to the brazen meri¬ 
dian in its zenith, by a nut, and tlie lower end is put 
between the globe and the horizon, and can be turned 
round to any point; it is divided into degrees, &c. by 
which the altitudes of objects above the liQi izon may be 
found, and their.azimuths determined. From one jioint 
of the brazen meridian correfponding to the equator, tiie 
degrees begin, and are continued both ways up to 90® 
at each pole ; but for the other I'emicircle of the brazen 
fneridian, the degrees begin at the poles, and are epnti- 
mied up to 90° at the equator. On the' horizon, the 
degrees begin at the ealt and welt points, and are con¬ 
tinued both ways to 90°, or to tlie north and fouthi 
points. The ecliptic and equator begin their degrees at 
one of their interi’e6tions, called arits, and they are Con¬ 
tinued round the fame way to 360°; alio, the'former is 
divided into, and marked witli, the twelve ligns; and 
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