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[Lat. globulus a little ball, a globule; dim in. of globus a globe. So named from the flowers being in globose heads.] Bot.: A genus of Selaginacem ( Selagids ). Globu lari a alypum , which grows in Southern Europe, is a bitter drastic purgative and emetic; it was once supposed to be the alupon of Dioscorides. Globu . lari a vulgar is , also European, has similar qualities, tglob-u-lär-i-ā-çe-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. globu lari ( a ), and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceӕ .] Bot : An old order of plants adopted by Lindley table Kingdom merged in Selaginaceae (q. v.). in his Natural System of Botany, but in his Vege glob-u-lăr-i-ty, s. [Eng. globular; -ity.] The quality or state of being globular; sphericity glob-u-lar-ly, adv. [Eng. globular; -ly.] In a globular or spherical manner; in manner of a sphere; spherically. glob-u-lar-ne , s. [English globular; -ne .] The quality or state of being globular; sphericity. glob üle, s . [Fr., from Lat. globulus , dim in. of globus a ball, a sphere.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A little ball. globe, or sphere; a partije of matter in a globular or spherical form. "And sometimes company that is, misty drops, which have been suddenly frozen by the snow, will be piled one upon another, as to compose a little pyramid, terminating in one single globule at the top; not much unlike to a lavender spike."-Grew: Cosmologia Sacra , bk. i., ch. iii. 2. Any small body of globular or nearly globular form. "These minute globules [the eyes of a mole] are sunk so deeply in the skull, and lie so sheltered within the velvet of its covering, as that any contraction of what may be called the eye-brows, not only closes up the apertures which lead to the eyes, but presents a cushion, it *glob-Ist, s. [English glob ( e ); -ist.] One who were, to any sharp or protruding substance which might understands the use of the globes. "Being a good globist he will quickly find the zenith." -Howell: Instruct. for For raine Travel (Appendix). glō-bō'se, a. [Lat. globosus, from globus =aglobe, a sphere; Ital. & Sp. globoso; Fr. globeux.] *1. Ord. Lang.: Like a globe in shape; round, spherical, globular. "Mark well the finished plan without a fault, The seas globose and huge." Cowper: Retirement, 552. IMG:content-0526.png:[blocks in formation]