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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Orb \Orb\, noun [F. orbe, fr. L. orbis circle, orb. Cf. {Orbit}.]
1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
In the small orb of one particular tear. --Shak.
Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --Milton.
2. One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
3. A circle; esp., a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon.
You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --Shak.
In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --Milton.
4. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. [R.] --Milton.
5. The eye, as luminous and spherical. [Poetic]
A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --Milton.
6. A revolving circular body; a wheel. [Poetic]
The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --Milton.
7. A sphere of action or influence. --Wordsworth.
But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shak
8. Same as {Mound}, a ball or globe. See 1st {Mound}.
9. (Mil.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.
Syn: Globe; ball; sphere. See {Globe}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Orb \Orb\ ([^o]rb), noun [OF. orb blind, fr. L. orbus destitute.] (Arch.) A blank window or panel. [Obs.] --Oxf. Gloss.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Orb \Orb\, verb (used without an object) To become round like an orb. [Poetic]
And orb into the perfect star. --Tennyson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Orb \Orb\ ([^o]rb), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Orbed} ([^o]rbd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Orbing}.]
1. To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] --Milton. --Lowell.
2. To encircle; to surround; to inclose. [Poetic]
The wheels were orbed with gold. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
orb
noun
1: the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye [syn: {eyeball}]
2: an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire" [syn: {ball}, {globe}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "orb": Aldebaran, Canicula, Dog Star, Hesper, Hesperus, Lucifer, North Star, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Polaris, Sirius, Venus, Vesper, ambit, area, arena, baby blues, bailiwick, ball, balloon, banjo eyes, beat, bladder, blob, boll, bolus, border, borderland, bright eyes, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, cap of dignity, cap of maintenance, celestial body, circle, circuit, clear eyes, comet, cornea, coronet, crown, daystar, demesne, department, diadem, discipline, domain, dominion, ellipsoid, ermine, evening star, eye, eyeball, eyelid, field, fixed stars, geoid, globe, globelet, globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, goggle eyes, great seal, heavenly body, hemisphere, iris, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, knob, knot, lamp, lens, lid, living sapphires, lodestar, march, morning star, naked eye, nictitating membrane, oblate spheroid, ocular, oculus, optic, optic nerve, orbit, orblet, organ of vision, pale, peeper, pellet, polar star, polestar, popeyes, precinct, privy seal, prolate spheroid, province, pupil, purple, purple pall, realm, regalia, retina, robe of state, rod, rod of empire, rondure, round, royal crown, saucer eyes, scepter, sclera, seal, signet, sphere, spheroid, spherule, starry host, starry orbs, stars, subdiscipline, tiara, triple plume, unaided eye, uraeus, visual organ, walk, winker
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
ORB {Object Request Broker}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ORB Object Request Broker (OMA, OMG, CORBA, ORB)
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