WordDictionary

Noun:

• A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit.
• A globus cruciger.
• A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star.
• A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography.
• One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions.
• poetic A revolving circular body; a wheel.
• poetic The eye, as luminous and spherical.
• rare A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. --John Milton.
• rare A sphere of action. --William Wordsworth.

Verb:

• poetic intransitive To become round like an orb.
• poetic To form into an orb or circle. --Milton. Lowell.
• poetic transitive To encircle; to surround; to inclose.
• transitive In the television programme/program ''Charmed'', to utilize the type of teleportation particularly associated with whitelighters.