sphere (n.) Old form(s): Spheares , spheeres
(plural) orbits [of the eye], sockets
Ham I.v.17[Ghost to Hamlet] Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres
Sonn.119.7[] How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted
TNK V.i.114[Palamon praying to Venus, of an old man] Torturing convulsions from his globy eyes / Had almost drawn their spheres [i.e. made the eyeballs come out of their sockets]
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