Glōb'ule, n.

noun

n. [Fr. globule, Sp. globulo, Lat. globulus, diminutive of globus.]

Sense 1. A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

Hailstones have opaque globules of snow in their center. Newton.

Sense 2. (Physiol.) A small, flat, and circular or elliptical body found in the blood of all animals; one of the corpuscles or disks found in the blood, and consisting of hematine and globuline.