globed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of globe.

   Note

   One spelling does double duty for a verb that runs both ways. Used intransitively, a substance globes on its own (mercury globed into beads), and the form is a plain simple past. Used transitively, something is globed by a force, and the past participle carries the passive: the drops were globed by heat. Keep it apart from the 'enclosed in a globe' adjective, where nothing has been made round at all.

2. 2
   adjective

   Enclosed within a globe or rounded glass covering.

   The globed candle flickered steadily behind its frosted glass.

   A globed gas lamp lit the narrow alley each evening.

   Oppositeunglobed

   Note

   The glass, not the flame, is what makes a candle globed: the word names a covering, never a shape. It sits before its noun, as in Robin Hardy's Nicole of Prie Mer (2003), where a character takes up a globed candle. It does not grade, so nothing is more globed than another, and its only opposite is unglobed.

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