I mean that, apart from the polar compression, the shape seemed as if the spheroid were irregularly squeezed; so that though not broken by projection or indentation, the limb did not present the regular quasi-circular curvature exhibited in the focus of our telescopes.

In the "Walpurgis dance of globule and oblate spheroid," there may be something wonderful, but through this drop of oil from the Walpurgian shrine an obstreperous knee snapped up into compact health instantly, and then a large church, ornamental to Preston and creditable to the entire Catholic population, arose.

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sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder^; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote^, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution) 248.

sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder^; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote^, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution) 248.

sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder^; spheroid, ellipsoid; oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote^, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution) 248.

He wears the usual youth's garment, the short toga, reaching below the knee, and a hollow spheroid of gold suspended round his neck.

* * SPHEROID (sf[=e]'), a body or figure in shape like a sphere.

At one end of it was a delicate, vibratory apparatus, not unlike the transmitter of a telephone, and the other end was threaded, as if the spheroid was made as an attachment to some other device.

XXII THE COMPACT A room, low-ceilinged, dim, gloomy, sinister as an inquisition chamber; a single large table in the center, holding a kerosene lamp, writing materials and a metal spheroid a shade larger than a one-pound shell; and around it a semicircle of silent, masked and cowled figures.

He picked up the metal spheroid and held it out for their inspection.

" He replaced the spheroid on the table.

It is one thing to watch the game from the grand stand or side-lines and another to have an awkward, wobbly, elusive spheroid tossed to the ground a few feet from you and be required to straightway throw yourself upon it in such manner that when it stops rolling it will be snugly stowed between you and the ground.

Then it was that the god of battle befriended Hillton; for on the next play St. Eustace made her first disastrous fumble, and Christie, Hillton's right end, darted through, seized the rolling spheroid, and started down the field.

"You are not, I presume, disposed to regret the fortunate circumstance by which you were permitted to visit this surpassingly marvellous cavernand it really is one of the finest, although the least known on this spheroid.

If Thomas Roch is to be credited, this fulgurator could shatter the terrestrial spheroid at one blow.

A few thousand tons of it would burst our spheroid and scatter the fragments into space.

he squeaked, and "G" Company haltedin form an oblate spheroid.

" The oblate spheroid assumed an archipelagic formation, melting into irregularly-placed military islands upon a sea of dust.

It happens, rather curiously, that, owing to the earth being an oblate spheroid, the difference between the source of the Mississippi and the center of the earth is less than that of its mouth and the center of the earth, and you may see how this running up hill is accounted for. From St. Louis I went to Indianapolis, thence to Pittsburg, where they have struck most extraordinary wells of natural gas.

Now, as the world is a globe, or, to speak more accurately, an oblate spheroid, the attempt to make an oblong square its symbol would seem, at first view, to present insuperable difficulties.

He showed that the earth must be an oblate spheroid, formed by the revolution of an ellipse round its lesser axis.

He showed how the tides were caused by the moon, and how the effect of the moon's action upon the earth is to draw its fluid parts into the form of an oblate spheroid, the axis of which passes through the moon.

"Well and happy; I do not believe it falls to the lot of any old woman to be happier in this oblate spheroid.

We owe to him the discovery of the true shape of the "red planet Mars,"that, like the Earth, it is an oblate spheroid, or flattened at the poles.