i Register
In some senses, orb is marked as rare, poetic, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
In the small orb of one particular tear.
Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.
Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
An orbit of an heavenly body
The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb.
The time period of an orbit
Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.
verb
To form into an orb or circle.
Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield
a full-orbed sun
To become round like an orb.
To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
The wheels were orbed with gold.
noun
A blank window or panel.
small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows