glitter ance (gliterans)

[ It rose and fell upon the surge, Till from the glitter ance of the sunny main IMG:content-2396.png:[blocks in formation] By reflection a thing may be seen greater than it is, in a different place from the true one where it is; colours may be made by reflection, as also gloating light, and fire. Sir K. Digby , Nature of Bodies, xiii. 2. To stare; gaze intently; specifically, to dwell or ponder with pleasure, as upon some- thing that gratifies an evil pa ion or a cor- runt rupt propensity: as, to gloat over the corpse of an enemy; to gloat upon a lascivious specta- cle; to gloat over the ruin of a rival. And with her gloomy eyes To glote upon those stars to us that never rise. Drayton, Polyolbion, xxvi. And then, having drunk, she gloated over it, and tasted, and smelt of the cup of this hellish wine, as a wine-bibber does of that which is most fragrant and delicate. Hawthorne , Septimius Felton, p. 100. =Syn. 2. Gaze , etc. See starel. II.t trans. To convey by a look or a glance. Her tongue, I confe , was silent; but her speaking eyes gloted such things, more immodest and lascivious than ravishers can act or women under a confinement think. Wycherley, Plain-Dealer. globt, n. and v. See globe , n., 6, and globe , v. t., 2. globardt, n. See glowbird . Globaria (glo-ba'ri-a), n. [NL. (Latreille, 1829), can. Same as globate . globate (glō'bāt), a. [ globatus , pp. of globare , make into a ball, globus , a ball: see globe .] Having the form of a globe; spherical; spheroidal. globated (glō'bā-ted), a . globber (glob'ėr), n . Same as glubber . globe (glob), n. [OF. globe , F. globe (the ME. glob , glub , glubbe , a company, is appar. directly from L.) = Sp. Pg. It. globo , globus , a ball, sphere, globe, a ma , company, troop, throng, akin to glomus , a ball, a clue, glæba , gleba , a clod, and ult. to E. clue : see glome , glebe , clue .] 1. A spherical solid body; a ball; a sphere; a body all points on whose surface are equidistant from a point within it (a center). Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence, though but reflected, shines; That place is earth, the seat of man. Milton, P. L., iii. 722. 2. Anything globular or nearly so, whether solid or hollow: as, the globe of the eye; the He turn'd his aching eyes. Southey , Thalaba, xii. globe of a balloon. IMG:content-2397.png:[blocks in formation] 2540 any ungenerous and unbeseeming motion, or any soile wherewith it may peril to stain itself. Milton, Church-Government. II. in trans. To become round or globe shaped. Mrs. Browning . [Rare.] with clear water, and placing it in such a manner between mortelles. the lamp and the workman that the light, after pa ing through the globe , may fall directly on 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 di olve. Shak., Tempest, iv. 1. Trade is the golden girdle of the globe. Cowper, Charity, 1. 86. or 4. An artificial sphere on whose surface is drawn a map or representation of the earth of the heavens, called in the former case a terrestrial globe, and in the latter a celestial globe. Terrestrial globes are made so as to revolve freely about an axis representing that of the earth. This axis turns in a vertical bra circle divided into degrees, or smaller divisions; and this represents the meridian 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 a umed station. The meridian moves in a fixed horizontal circle of wood, called the horizon, which is divided into signs, days, etc. Cheaper globes are made Terrestrial Globe. 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 roo me... is very cunningly made in bra e, 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. Gaskell , Wives and Daughters, I. 62. 5. In her., same as mound. -6t. A ma ; company; group; throng; body. Tho [watres] that camen fro aboue shulen stond togidre Wyclif, Josh. iii. 13 (Oxf.). in a glob. 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 flew nigh. Milton , P. R., iv. 581. Globe of compre ion, 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 a globe. See meridian. = Syn. 1 and 2. Globe, Sphere, Orb, Ball. Globe and sphere represent that which is either perfectly round or closely approaches roundne : 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 earth1. She is spherical, like a globe . Shak., C. of E., iii. 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. globe-amaranth (globama-ranth), ". The plant Gomphrena 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 imglobe-animal (globʼan"i-mal), n. One of certain minute globular plants of the genus Volvox, formerly supposed to be animals, as V. glob at or. globe-cock (globʻkok), n. 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.