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221 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REALIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain of sand against the globe of earth.
222 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. RECTIFY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To rectify the globe, is to bring the sun’s place in the ecliptic on the globe to the brass meridian.
223 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPRESENTATION.4 (Noah Webster)
… terrestrial globe is a representation of the earth. An orrery is a representation of the planets and their revolutions.
224 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROTUNDITY.1 (Noah Webster)
ROTUNDITY, n. Roundness; sphericity; circularity; as the rotundity of a globe.
225 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROUND.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Cylindrical; circular; spherical or globular. Round is applicable to a cylinder as well as to a globe or sphere. We say, the barrel of a musket is round; a ball is round; a circle is round.
226 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ROUNDNESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The quality of being round, circular, spherical, globular or cylindrical; circularity; sphericity; cylindrical form; rotundity; as the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, etc.
227 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SCIOPTIC.3 (Noah Webster)
SCIOPTIC, n. A sphere or globe with a lens made to turn like the eye; used in experiments with the camera obscura.
228 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLID.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Not hollow; full of matter; as a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one.
229 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPECUATION.5 (Noah Webster)
… . This globe, which was formerly round only in speculation, has been circumnavigated. The application of steam to navigation is no longer a matter of mere speculation …
230 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPHERE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. An orb or globe of the mundane system. First the sun, a mighty sphere, he fram’d. Then mortal ears had heard the music of the spheres.
231 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STEADFAST.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Fast fixed; firm; firmly fixed or established; as the stedfast globe of earth.
232 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STRUCTURE.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Manner of building; form; make; construction; as the want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.
233 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUCK.6 (Noah Webster)
Old ocean suck’d through the porous globe.
234 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TERRAQUEOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
… the globe or earth. This epithet is given to the earth in regard to the surface, of which more than three fifths consist of water, and the remainder of earth or …
235 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TERRESTRIAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Consisting of earth; as the terrestrial globe.
236 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THISTLE.1 (Noah Webster)
… ; the globe thistle of the genus Echinops; the cotton thistle of the genus Onopordon; and the sow thistle of the genus Sonchus. The name is also given to other …
237 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRACE.10 (Noah Webster)
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.
238 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRAVERSE.20 (Noah Webster)
2. To wander over; to cross in traveling; as, to traverse the habitable globe.
239 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TROPIC.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Tropics, in geography, are two lesser circles of the globe, drawn parallel to the equator through the beginning of Cancer and of Capricorn.
240 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TUT.2 (Noah Webster)
TUT, n. An imperial ensign of a golden globe with a cross on it.