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Definition of Sphear
1. sphaer [n -S] - See also: sphaer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphear
Literary usage of Sphear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"... any thing that is round, a sphear. It Glomus, a clew or bottom of thread, a
ball, pellet, or other like round thing."—Som. ..."
2. The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and by Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Odet de La Noue, Henry Smith (1880)
"The terme of the revolution of the firmament. Of the seventh, which is the sphear
of Saturne. Of the sixth which is the sphear ..."
3. The Complete Poems of John Donne by John Donne, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1872)
"He comes, and passeth through sphear after sphear; First her sheets, then her
armes, then anywhere. Let not this day, then, but this night be thine, ..."
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