About The Word Orb

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What's The Definition Of Orb?
[n] the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
[n] an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire" Synonyms | Synonyms for Orb: ball | eyeball | globe Related Terms | Find terms related to Orb: Aldebaran | ambit | area | arena | baby blues | bailiwick | ball | balloon | banjo eyes | beat | bladder | blob | boll | bolus | border | borderland | bright eyes | bubble | bulb | bulbil | bulblet | Canicula | cap of dignity | cap of maintenance | celestial body | circle | circuit | clear eyes | comet | cornea | coronet | crown | daystar | demesne | department | diadem | discipline | Dog Star | domain | dominion | ellipsoid | ermine | evening star | eye | eyeball | eyelid | field | fixed stars | geoid | globe | globelet | globoid | globule | glomerulus | gob | gobbet | goggle eyes | great seal | heavenly body | hemisphere | Hesper | Hesperus | iris | judicial circuit | jurisdiction | knob | knot | lamp | lens | lid | living sapphires | lodestar | Lucifer | march | morning star | naked eye | nictitating membrane | North Star | oblate spheroid | ocular | oculus | optic | optic nerve | orbit | orblet | organ of vision | pale | peeper | pellet | Phosphor | Phosphorus | polar star | Polaris | polestar | popeyes | precinct | privy seal | prolate spheroid | province | pupil | purple | purple pall | realm | regalia | retina | robe of state | rod | rod of empire | rondure | round | royal crown | saucer eyes | scepter | sclera | seal | signet | Sirius | sphere | spheroid | spherule | starry host | starry orbs | stars | subdiscipline | tiara | triple plume | unaided eye | uraeus | Venus | Vesper | visual organ | walk | winker See Also | bolus | camphor ball | capsule | crystal ball | eye | fireball | globule | mothball | oculus | optic | peeper | pellet | sphere | spherule | time-ball Orb In Webster's Dictionary \Orb\, n. [OF. orb blind, fr. L. orbus destitute.] (Arch.)
A blank window or panel. [Obs.] --Oxf. Gloss.
\Orb\, n. [F. orbe, fr. L. orbis circle, orb. Cf. {Orbit}.] 1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star. In the small orb of one particular tear. --Shak. Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --Milton. 2. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions. 3. A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit. The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon. You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --Shak. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --Milton. 4. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. [R.] --Milton. 5. The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic] A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --Milton. 6. A revolving circular body; a wheel. [Poetic] The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --Milton. 7. A sphere of action. [R.] --Wordsworth. But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shak 8. Same as {Mound}, a ball or globe. See lst {Mound}. 9. (Mil.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry. Syn: Globe; ball; sphere. See {Globe}. \Orb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Orbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Orbing}.] 1. To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] --Milton. Lowell. 2. To encircle; to surround; to inclose. [Poetic] The wheels were orbed with gold. --Addison. \Orb\, v. i. To become round like an orb. [Poetic] And orb into the perfect star. --Tennyson. |
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