Orbit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An orb or ball.

II. Orbit ·noun The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

III. Orbit ·noun The cavity or socket of the skull in which the eye and its appendages are situated.

IV. Orbit ·noun 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.

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