Word Meanings - UNSPHERE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.

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• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• PLANETED
  Belonging to planets. Young.
• PLANETOIDAL
  Pertaining to a planetoid.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• PLANET
  A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
• PLANETARIUM
  An orrery. See Orrery.
• SPHERE
  A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center. 2. Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth. Of celestial
• PLANETOID
  A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
  Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
• PLANETARY
  Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life."
• PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK
  Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• ENSPHERE
  1. To place in a sphere; to envelop. His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered. Chapman. 2. To form into a sphere.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• ATMOSPHERE
  The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller. 2. A supposed
• PLANISPHERE
  The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting
• UNDERSPHERE
  1. A sphere which is smaller than, and in its movements subject to, another; a satellite. 2. An inferior sphere, or field of action.
• INTERPLANETARY
  Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.
• BARYSPHERE
  The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.
• CHROMOSPHERE
  An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.
• PHOTOSPHERE
  A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.
• CENTROSPHERE
  The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc. 2. The central mass of an aster from which the rays extend and within which the centrosome lies when present; the attraction
• HYDROSPHERE
  The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere. 2. The aqueous envelope of the earth, including the ocean, all lakes, streams, and underground waters, and the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere.