Definition of "globular"

"Nary a spot," interrupted E. R. Coglan, flippantly. "The terrestrial, globular, planetary hunk of matter, slightly flattened at the poles, and known as the Earth, is my abode.

1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café

Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 148

Globular lights, painted a dark green, hang from under the fancy iron eaves, unlit for centuries...

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow