orb

UK /ɔɹb/ US /ɔɹb/
noun 8verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

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

3

A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere

4

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.

5

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

1

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

2

To become round like an orb.

3

To encircle; to surround; to enclose.

The wheels were orbed with gold.

noun

1

A blank window or panel.

small blank windows or panels, for in later times such panels were called orbs, blind windows

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