orb
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1. orb - Noun
2. orb - Verb
Meaning
A blank window or panel.
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
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.
A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
The eye, as luminous and spherical.
A revolving circular body; a wheel.
A sphere of action.
Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.
A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
To form into an orb or circle.
To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
To become round like an orb.
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Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun it shines everywhere.
13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
He alludes to the appearance of a face in the orb of the moon.
It is already on the wane, eclipsed by the enlarging orb of reason, and the luminous revolutions of America and France.
A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.