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Orb :: Orb (n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star..

Semiorbicular :: Semiorbicular (a.) Having the shape of a half orb or sphere.

Forthby :: Forthby (adv.) See Forby.

Covet :: Covet (v. t.) To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).

Shave :: Shave (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.

Persistent :: Persistent (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius..

Anomaly :: Anomaly (n.) The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) Fig.: Any morbid corrupting quality in intellectual or moral conditions; something that poisons the mind or the soul; as, the virus of obscene books..

Supernal :: Supernal (a.) Being in a higher place or region; locally higher; as, the supernal orbs; supernal regions..

Orbed :: Orbed (imp. & p. p.) of Or.

Limosis :: Limosis (n.) A ravenous appetite caused by disease; excessive and morbid hunger.

Antorbital :: Antorbital (a.) Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit..

Orbital :: Orbital (a.) Of or pertaining to an orbit.

Orb :: Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound..

Manchineel :: Manchineel (n.) A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple..

Infraorbital :: Infraorbital (a.) Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve..

Aphelion :: Aphelion (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion..

Pteron :: Pteron (n.) The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other..

Forbade :: Forbade (imp.) of Forbi.

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