*orbit*

a. & n. (Anat.) Same as Antorbital. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + orbital. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of the orbit. -- n. The antorbital bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. A going out of or beyond the usual or due limit; hence, enormity; extravagance; gross deviation from rule, right, or propriety; as, the exorbitances of the tongue or of deportment; exorbitance of demands. “A curb to your exorbitancies.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. exorbitans, -antis, p. pr. of exorbitare to go out of the track; ex out + orbita track: cf. F. exorbitant. See Orbit. ] 1. Departing from an orbit or usual track; hence, deviating from the usual or due course; going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety; excessive; extravagant; enormous; inordinate; as, exorbitant appetites and passions; exorbitant charges, demands, or claims. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foul exorbitant desires. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not comprehended in a settled rule or method; anomalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Jews . . . [ were ] inured with causes exorbitant, and such as their laws had not provided for. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an exorbitant, excessive, or irregular manner; enormously. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L.exorbitatus, p. p. of exorbitare. See Exorbitant. ] To go out of the track; to deviate. [ Obs. ] Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Infra + orbital. ] (Anat.) Below the orbit; as, the infraorbital foramen; the infraorbital nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Between the orbits; as, the interorbital septum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. orbita a track or rut made by a wheel, course, circuit, fr. orbis a circle: cf. F. orbite. See 2d Orb. ] 1. (Astron.) The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An orb or ball. [ Rare & Improper ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an orbit. “Orbital revolution.” J. D. Forbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Orbital index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. orbitaire. ] Orbital. [ R. ] Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Situated around the orbit; as, the orbitary feathers of a bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. orbis an orb + tela a web. ] (Zool.) A division of spiders, including those that make geometrical webs, as the garden spider, or Epeira. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ NL. See Orbit, and -lite. ] (Zool.) A genus of living Foraminifera, forming broad, thin, circular disks, containing numerous small chambers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Orbit + nasal. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Orbit + sphenoid. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n. The orbitosphenoid bone, which is situated in the orbit on either side of the presphenoid. It generally forms a part of the sphenoid in the adult. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Orbital. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. orbitudo, orbitas, fr. orbus: cf. F. orbité. See Orbate. ] Orbation. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. post- + orbital. ] (Anat. & Zool.) Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. -- n. A postorbital bone or scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Situated in front or the orbit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sorbus service tree. ] (Chem.) A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance. -- Sor*bit"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. sorbitio. ] The act of drinking or sipping. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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{ } a. (Anat.) Situated under or below the orbit. [ 1913 Webster ]