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361 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 756.3 (Matthew Henry)
… celestial globe, with a great deal of anxiety and trembling. Business was stopped if any thing occurred that was thought to bode ill; if it did but thunder on …
362 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 804.12 (Matthew Henry)
… , a globe, or orb, or wheel of fire. God being his own cause, his own rule, and his own end, if he be as a fire, he is as a fire enfolding itself, or (as some read it) kindled by …
363 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 889.5 (Matthew Henry)
… terraqueous globe, both earth and sea, so that, which way soever his enemies think to make their escape, he will meet them, or to make opposition, he will match …
364 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.38 (Matthew Henry)
… celestial globe: a poor thing to make an idol of, and yet better than a golden calf! Now for this it is threatened, I will carry you away beyond Babylon. In Amos it …
365 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1160.8 (Matthew Henry)
… terraqueous globe) standing out of the water and in the water. Not is it only the first frame and order of the world that is here said to be by the word of God, but …
366 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. גֻּלָּה².2
… - or globe-shaped portion of capitals of the two pillars in temple 1 K 7:41 (×2), 42 = 2 Ch 4:12 (×2), 13 .
367 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Wheel.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… a globe, and in autumn breaks away from its roots, and is rolled about by the wind in some places in great numbers.
368 Etymology dictionary, p. antipodal (adj.).2
"situated on the opposite side of the globe," 1640s; see antipodes + -al (1). Also antipodean, attested from 1630s as a noun; 1650s as an adjective.
369 Etymology dictionary, p. antipodes (n.).2
… the globe;" from 1540s as "country or region on the opposite side of the earth," from Latin antipodes "those who dwell on the opposite side of the earth," from Greek …
370 Etymology dictionary, p. Berenice.3
… 1536 globe as Berenice's Hair, and it endured. Berenice's Hair is also sometimes incorrectly given as an old name of the star Canopus, based on Holland's mistranslation …
371 Etymology dictionary, p. bowl (n.2).2
"sphere, globe, ball," c. 1400, from Old French boule "ball," from Latin bulla "round swelling, knob" (see bull (n.2)). Meaning "large, solid ball of hard wood used in the game of bowls " is from mid-15c.
372 Etymology dictionary, p. circle (v.).2
… a globe," also "to encompass or surround with a circle," from circle (n.). From c. 1400 as "to set in a circular pattern;" mid-15c. as "to move round in a circle." Related: Circled …
373 Etymology dictionary, p. conjunctiva (n.).2
"mucous membrane of the inner surface of the eyelids," 1540s, medical Latin, short for membrana conjunctiva "conjunctive membrane" (see conjunctive ). So called because it conjoins the lids and the globe of the eye. Related: Conjunctival .
374 Etymology dictionary, p. continent (n.).3
As "one of the large land masses of the globe" from 1610s. As "the mainland of Europe" (from the point of view of Britain), from c. 1600.
375 Etymology dictionary, p. ditzy (adj.).2
… [Boston Globe, March 11], U.S. slang, of unknown origin; one guess [OED] is that it is a corruption of earlier African-American vernacular dicty (1926) "conceited, snobbish …
376 Etymology dictionary, p. eastern (adj.).2
… the globe," from east + -erne, suffix denoting direction. Cognate with Old Saxon ostroni, Old High German ostroni, Old Norse austroenn. Eastern Shore of Maryland …
377 Etymology dictionary, p. eyeball (n.).2
… or globe of the eye," so called for its shape, 1580s, from eye (n.) + ball (n.1), which is attested from c. 1400 in the sense "spherical structure of the eye." As a verb, 1901, American …
378 Etymology dictionary, p. filibuster (n.).5
… Congressional Globe and cited in the OED does not refer to legislative obstruction, but to national policy toward Cuba.]
379 Etymology dictionary, p. fishbowl (n.).2
also fish-bowl, "a glass globe in which fish are kept," 1850, from fish (n.) + bowl (n.). The form goldfish-bowl is attested from 1841. Figuratively, as a place where one is under constant observation, by 1957. Fish-globe is by 1858.
380 Etymology dictionary, p. flivver (n.).2
… ." [Boston Globe, Feb. 20, 1910] A character in a comical column from The Philadelphia Inquirer of Aug. 16, 1909, says it is "... from the verb 'to fliv,' meaning a foul, a bungled …