Word Meanings - GLOBULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. 3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. (more info) 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules

Additional info about word: GLOBULE

A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc. 3. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists. (more info) 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form. Globules of snow. Sir I. Newton. These minute globules are sunk . . . deeply in the skull. Paley.

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• LYMPH
  An alkaline colorless fluid, contained in the lymphatic vessels, coagulable like blood, but free from red blood corpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• ROUNDFISH
  Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska.
• ROUND-UP
  The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• LYMPHOGENIC
  Connected with, or formed in, the lymphatic glands.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• ROUNDSMAN
  A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• GLOBE
  1. A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere. 2. Anything which is nearly spherical or globular in shape; as, the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp. 3. The
• PELLET
  1. A little ball; as, a pellet of wax . 2. A bullet; a ball for firearms. Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding , a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ATMOSPHERICALLY
  In relation to the atmosphere.
• SUBSPHERICAL
  Nearly spherical; having a figure resembling that of a sphere.