the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.
n. A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.
n. A little pill or pellet used by homeopathists.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A little globe or sphere; a small or minute body of matter of a spherical form.
n. Specifically— In anatomy and physics, a blood-disk or -corpuscle, or a lymph-corpuscle.
n. In botany, the antheridium of Characeæ.
n. In homeopathic med., a minute pill consisting of sugar of milk combined with the active principle of some drug.
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n. a small globe or ball
Word Usage
"Homoeopathy has introduced one essential amelioration in the practice of physic by amateur females; for its rules are excellent, its physicking comparatively harmless – the "globule" is the one grain of folly which appears to be necessary to make any good thing acceptable."