Lewis Short
(verb) : glŏbo, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To make into a ball, to make round or spherical (postAug. and perh. only pass. and mid.).
* Lit.: dependentes ubique guttae parvis globantur orbibus,Plin. 2, 65, 65, § 163; 18, 13, 34, § 130: formam mundi in speciem orbis absoluti globatam esse,id. 2, 2, 2, § 5.
* Transf., to form into a body or crowd, to crowd together: si ante exortum solis nubes globabuntur, hiemem asperam denuntiabunt,Plin. 18, 35, 78, § 344; 11, 17, 17, § 53; cf.: coturnices globatae vehementius properant,Sol. 11 med.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary