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Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.
Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd / By our own quick'ning power, when fatal course / Had circl'd his full Orbe, the birth mature / Of this our native Heav'n, Ethereal Sons.
(poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
Painfully, he forced his hot eyelids to unclose, and his distended orbs sought for some object whereon to fix; they met the patch of grass, yet red with the blood of Walter Maynard.
(poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost., London: [Samuel Simmons],, →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:, London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873, →OCLC:
Let each His adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his helm, gripe fast his orbed shield
And is it that the haze of grief Hath stretch’d my former joy so great? […] Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far; And orb into the perfect star We saw not, when we moved therein?
“orb”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
“orb”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN