globe
/ɡloʊb/ noun A2- The eyeball.
- A spherical model of Earth or of another planet.
- A part of a device, often a lamp. · the globe of a lamp
- A circular military formation used in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the modern infantry square.
- A woman's breast or buttock, whichever is more prominent.
- A land snail of the genus Mesodon.
Plural globes
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The globe of the lamp appeared of a reddish hue, and the flame, brightening before it expired, threw out the last flickerings which in an inanimate object have been so often compared with the convulsions of a human creature in its final agonies.
How the talk got that way I canna think; but he had out a reflector lantern and a globe, and made it all clear in a minute.
“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
A double movement of the globe he inhabited, and of which he could feel nothing, appeared to him perfectly impossible.
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