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141 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARIES.2 (Noah Webster)
The ram, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe, in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
142 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASIATIC.1 (Noah Webster)
… the globe which extends from the strait of Constantinople and Arabian gulf, to the Pacific ocean on the east. It is probable, the name was originally appropriated …
143 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. AZIMUTH.7 (Noah Webster)
On charts, these azimuths are represented by rhumbs, and on the globe, by the quadrant of altitude, when screwed in the zenith.
144 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BALL.5 (Noah Webster)
4. The globe or earth, from its figure.
145 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BALL.6 (Noah Webster)
5. A globe borne as an ensign of authority; as, to hold the ball of a kingdom.
146 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BALL.15 (Noah Webster)
Fire-ball, a meteor; a luminous globe darting through the atmosphere; also, a bag of canvas filled with gunpowder, sulphur, pitch, saltpeter, etc., to be thrown by the hand, or from mortars, to set fire to houses.
147 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BALLOON.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In architecture, a ball or globe, on the top of a pillar.
148 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CELESTIAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Belonging to the upper regions, or visible heaven; as celestial signs; the celestial globe.
149 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHART.2 (Noah Webster)
… the globe, in which the meridians are supposed parallel to each other, the parallels of latitude at equal distances, and of course the degrees of latitude …
150 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CIRCUMNAVIGATE.1 (Noah Webster)
CIRCUMNAVIGATE, v.t. To sail round; to pass round by water; as, to circumnavigate the globe.
151 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLUTCH.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To seize, or grasp; as, to clutch the globe at a grasp.
152 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONGLOBATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… . See Globe .] Formed or gathered into a ball. A conglobate gland is a single or lymphatic gland, a small smooth body, covered in a fine skin, admitting only an artery …
153 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUCH.18 (Noah Webster)
The waters couch themselves, as close as may be, to the center of the globe.
154 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAISY.1 (Noah Webster)
DAISY, n. A plant of the genus Bellis, of several varieties. The blue daisy belongs to the genus Globularia, as does the globe daisy; the greater or ox-eye daisy belongs to the genus Chrysanthemum; and the middle daisy, to the Doronicum.
155 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EARTH.2 (Noah Webster)
… the globe, but more particularly the particles which form the fine mold on the surface of the globe; or it denotes any indefinite mass or portion of that matter …
156 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EARTH.4 (Noah Webster)
… terraqueous globe which we inhabit. The earth is nearly spherical, but a little flatted at the poles, and hence its figure is called an oblate spheroid. It is …
157 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EARTH.6 (Noah Webster)
5. The inhabitants of the globe.
158 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EARTH.10 (Noah Webster)
7. Country; region; a distinct part of the globe.
159 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ECLIPTIC.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In geography, a great circle on the terrestrial globe, answering to and falling within the plane of the celestial ecliptic.
160 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENCOMPASS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To go or sail round; as Drake encompassed the globe.