Orb (astrology)
WordNet

noun


(1)   The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
(2)   An object with a spherical shape
"A ball of fire"

verb


(3)   Move in an orbit
"The moon orbits around the Earth"
"The planets are orbiting the sun"
"Electrons orbit the nucleus"
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Noun



  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. --Shakespeare.
    Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. -- John 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; especially, 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. --Shakespeare.
    In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --John Milton.
  4. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. --John Milton.
  5. The eye, as luminous and spherical.
    A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --John Milton.
  6. A revolving circular body; a wheel.
    The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --John Milton.
  7. A sphere of action. --William Wordsworth.
    But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --Shakespeare
  8. Same as Mound, a ball or globe.
  9. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.

Verb



  1. To form into an orb or circle. --Milton. Lowell.
  2. To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
  3. In the television programme/program Charmed, to utilize the type of teleportation particularly associated with whitelighters.
  4. To become round like an orb.

Etymology


From the same Finno-Ugric root *orpa as Finnish orpo and Hungarian árva
 
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