1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
Globules of snow.
Sir I. Newton.
These minute globules [a mole's eyes] are sunk . . . deeply in the skull.
Paley. 2. (Biol.) 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.
Globulet
(Glob"u*let) n. A little globule. Crabb.
Globuliferous
(Glob`u*lif"er*ous) a. [Globule + -ferous.] Bearing globules; in geology, used of rocks,
and denoting a variety of concretionary structure, where the concretions are isolated globules and evenly
distributed through the texture of the rock.
Globulimeter
(Glob`u*lim"e*ter) n. [Globule + -meter.] (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the number
of red blood corpuscles in the blood.
The method depends on the differences of tint obtained by mixing a sample of the blood with sodium
carbonate solution.
Globulin
(Glob"u*lin) n. [From Globule: cf. F. globuline.] (Phisiol. Chem.) An albuminous body, insoluble
in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with hæmatin
to form hæmoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes
called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin,
fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.
Globulite
(Glob"u*lite) n. [See Globule.] (Min.) A rudimentary form of crystallite, spherical in shape.
Globulous
(Glob"u*lous) a. [Cf. F. globuleux.] Globular; spherical; orbicular. — Glob"u*lous*ness, n.
Globy
(Glob"y) a. Resembling, or pertaining to, a globe; round; orbicular. "The globy sea." Milton.
Glochidiate
(Glo*chid"i*ate) a. [Gr. point of an arrow.] (Bot.) Having barbs; as, glochidiate bristles.
Gray.
Glochidium
(||Glo*chid"i*um) n.; pl. Glochidia [NL., fr. Gr. the point of an arrow.] (Zoöl.) The larva or
young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
Glode
(Glode) obs. imp. of Glide. Chaucer.
Glombe
(Glombe Glome) v. i. To gloom; to look gloomy, morose, or sullen. [Obs.] Surrey.
Glome
(Glome) n. Gloom. [Obs.]
Glome
(Glome) n. [L. glomus a ball. Cf. Globe.] (Anat.) One of the two prominences at the posterior
extremity of the frog of the horse's foot.
Glomerate
(Glom"er*ate) a. [L. glomeratus, p. p. of glomerare to glomerate, from glomus. See 3d
Glome.] Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
Glomerate
(Glom"er*ate) v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Glomerated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glomerating ] To
gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.
Glomeration
(Glom`er*a"tion) n. [L. glomeratio.]
