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Glass globe
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crystal ball
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A crystal ball , also known as an orbuculum , is a crystal or glass ball and common fortune telling object. It is generally associated with the performance of clairvoyance and scrying in particular.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future. 2 (by extension, used mostly in the negative form) A way of seeing into the future.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A crystal ball in which one can call up the past? ▪ Gazing into our crystal ball , we see Scott breaking her campaign promise to not privatize Tucson Water. ▪ I feel stocks will move higher long term, but the next six months ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers
Usage examples of crystal ball.
But I nursed the crystal ball in my hand, uninterested in Alizon and its spies, sure that somehow the Lord Kerovan would do as I willed, and I would look upon the picture of a man who was no monster.
For awhile he stood still so that his eyes might become accustomed to the utter blackness, and gradually the sinister fascinating crystal ball appeared, faintly visible by its own mystic luminosity.
I also made frequent use of my crystal ball to keep careful watch over him.
I took my crystal ball from a well-padded pouch on my sword belt and put it to use.
They were made of black metal, not wood, each with a crystal ball set at its top.
The big man paced back and forth on the transparent floor of his Orb Office that hung like a magnificent crystal ball from the cavern ceiling.