orb

orb
1. noun /oɹb,ɔː(r)b/
a) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star

In the small orb of one particular tear.

b) 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

Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled.

2. verb /oɹb,ɔː(r)b/
a) to form into an orb or circle Milton Lowell
b) to encircle; to surround; to inclose

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