orby
adjEtymology From orb + -y.
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Obsolete having characteristics of an orb
- It smote Atrides orbie targe; but runne not through the brasse. When, now arraid The world was with the spring; and orbie houres Had gone the round againe, through herbs and flowers.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
- Their orbye christales moue More actiue than before, And entheate from aboue Their soueraigne prince laude, glorifie, adore.1623, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Flowers of Sion: