globigerina shells (globijerinashelz)

pl. The shells or tests of dead globigerines from which the animal has disappeared, and which compose globigerina-mud in a more or le fragmentary or decomposed state. globigerine (glo-bij'e-rin), a. and n. [ Which is made up of an aggregation of globigerine chamW. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 483. IMG:content-2400.png:[graphic] seen. bers. IMG:content-2401.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-2402.png:[blocks in formation] globospherite (glo-bo-sfērīt), n. a ball, + sphæra , sphere, + -ite2 .] A name given by Vogelsang to an aggregation of glob- litic base. ulites into spherical forms, the individual con- stituents being arranged in lines radiating from the center of the group. globoust (glo'bus), a . [ globeux = Sp. Pg. It. globoso , globosus , round as a ball (> E. globose , q. v.), globus , a ball: see globe .] Same Than all this globous earth in plain outspread (Such are the courts of God), the angelic throng Dispersed in bands. of the chalky mud found at the bottom of the sea, as well as globose . as vast extents of limestone. Like other foraminifers, they were originally mis- taken for and described as minute cephalopods, owing to the form of the chambered shells. But they are protozoan ani- malcules, whose soft parts consist of apparently structurele protoplasm, like that of other fora- minifers and of rhizopods in general, which has the globoid (glō'boid), a . and n. [L. globus , a ball (see globe ), + Gr. είδος , 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. 324. IMG:content-2403.png:[blocks in formation] globular (glob'u-lar), a . [= F.globulaire =Pg. globular It. globulare , globular is , globule .] Globe- shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; round; spherical. The figure of the atoms of all visible fluids, quâ 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 a globular shape of 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. Globular i a (glob-u-lā'ri-ä), n. [NL., neut. pl. of globular is , globulus , a little ball: see globule.] 1. A genus of gamopetalous herbs or small shrubs, of the order Selaginaceæ , includ- ing a dozen species of the Mediterranean re- gion. They have small blue flowers in terminal globu- Iar heads, with irregularly lobed corolla, didynamous sta- mens, and an indehiscent one-celled and one-seeded fruit. G. vulgar is , a common species of southern Europe, is some- times called the globe - daisy . The leaves of G. Alypum are used as a substitute for senna. 2. A genus of mollusks. Swains on, 1840. globularity (glob-u-lar'i-ti), n. [ globular + -ity.] The state or quality of being globular; globosity; sphericity. [Rare.] globularly (glob'u-lär-li), adv . In a globular or spherical form; spherically. globularne (glob'u-lär-nes), n . The quality of being globular; sphericity. globule (glob'ul), n. [F. globule = Sp. glóbulo =Pg. It. globulo , 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 an at. and physics, a blood-disk or -corpuscle, or a lymph-corpuscle. ( b ) In bot . , the antheridium of Characeæ. (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'ū-lin), n. [ globule +-in2, -ine2.] 1. The general name of a cla 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 2. A protein body occurring, mixed with albu- min, in the cells of the crystalline lens of the eye (whence it is also called crystal lin). 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 globulism (glob'ū-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-līt), n. [ globule +-ite2.] In lithol ., the simplest and most rudimentary form developed in the proce of devitrification. See that word. Globulites are very minute rounded bodies, destitute of crystalline structure. They retain the name globulite so long as they remain irregularly scattered The same drops will retain the same figure on stone, or iron, yet they will readily adhere to gold, and loose their globulous ne upon it, though gold be a far drier body than wood. Boyle , Works, II. 664. globus (glo'bus), n.; pl. globi (-bī). [L.: see globe.] 1. A ball; a globe; a globose body. Specifically-2. In her ., same as mound . -Glo- bus hysteric us, 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 (glō'bi), a. [ globe +-y1.] 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. glochid ate, 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, glochid ate (glō-kid'i-at, glok'i- dat), a . [ glochis (with a umed stem * glochid- ) or glochidium + -ate.] In bot . and zoöl . , barbed at the tip, as a hair or bristle. gloiocarp