spheric

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So in some village-barn, or festive hall The spheric lens illumes the whiten'd wall; 140 O'er the bright field successive figures fleet, And motley shadows dance along the sheet.—

From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Darwin, Erasmus

Various spheric mansions or vibratory regions are provided for good and evil spirits.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa

I crept inside the frame, and stood actually under the colossal mass, as it swung like a world in its spheric chime.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

The ripe human ovum or germ cell is a spheric cell, about 0.2 mm. in diameter, consisting of granular protoplasm, in which lies a nucleus which contains the germinal spot.

From The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene by Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)

The patient died one month after of another cause, and at the postmortem examination the aorta was shown to have been opened; the wound in its walls was covered with a spheric, indurated coagulum.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)