ORB

Orb

Orb is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. After being defeated in his first three starts, Orb won five consecutive races, culminating with a victory in the Kentucky Derby on May 4, 2013. He was retired at the end of the year to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm.

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orb

Noun

  1. A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
    In the small orb of one particular tear. --
    Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --
  2. 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
  3. A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
    The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon
    You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --
    In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --
  4. A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body. --
  5. The eye, as luminous and spherical
    A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --
  6. A revolving circular body; a wheel
    The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --
  7. A sphere of action. --
    But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --
  8. A globus cruciger
  9. A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography
  10. A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A blank window or panel.

Verb

  1. to form into an orb or circle
  2. to encircle; to surround; to enclose
  3. to become round like an orb


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