† hemiˈspherule Obs.
A half spherule; a small hemispherical lens.
| 1696 W. S. Gray in Phil. Trans. XIX. 281, I was wont to Grind them [glasses] and Polish them on a brass Plane, and so reduce them to Hemispherules. 1756 T. Amory J. Buncle (1770) II. 81 They have them [microscopes] of all kinds, of one and more hemispherules. |