spher-

American  

1. variant of sphero- before a vowel.

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Example Sentences

Spher′ic, -al, pertaining to, or like, a sphere.—n.

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Spher′ūle, a little sphere; Spher′ūlite, a radiating spherical group of minute acicular crystals common in silicious volcanic rocks.—adjs.

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Oblate′ness, flatness at the poles; Oblate′-spher′oid, a spherical body flattened at the poles.

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The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order: And, therefore, is the glorious planet, Sol, In nobler eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But, when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny?

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But bring not near the solemn corse a type of human seeming, Lay only dust's stern verity upon the dust undreaming: And while the calm perpetual stars shall look upon it solely, Her spher�d soul shall look on them with eyes more bright and holy.

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