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Ball
BALL, n.[L. pila; A ball may signify a mass from collecting, or it may be that which is driven, from the root of L. pello; probably the former.]
1. A round body; a spherical substance, whether natural or artificial; or a body nearly round; as, a ball for play; a ball of thread; a ball of snow.
2. A bullet; a ball of iron or lead for cannon, muskets, etc.
3. A printer's ball, consisting of hair or wool, covered with leather or skin, and fastened to a stock, called a ball-stock, and used to put ink on the types in the forms.
4. The globe or earth, from its figure.
5. A globe borne as an ensign of authority; as, to hold the ball of a kingdom.
6. Any part of the body that is round or protuberant; as, the eye ball; the ball of the thumb or foot.
7. The weight at the bottom of a pendulum.
8. Among the Cornish miners in England, a tin mine.
9. In pyrotechnics, a composition of combustible ingredients, which serve to burn, smoke or give light.
Ball-stock, among printers, a stock somewhat hollow at one end, to which balls of skin, stuffed with wool, are fastened, and which serves as a handle.
Ball-vein, among miners, a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses, of a circular form, containing sparkling particles.
Ball and socket, an instrument used in surveying and astronomy, made of brass, with a perpetual screw, to move horizontally, obliquely, or vertically.
Puff-ball, in botany, the Lycoperdon, a genus of fungeses.
Fire-ball, a meteor; a luminous globe darting through the atmosphere; also, a bag of canvas filled with gunpowder, sulphur, pitch, saltpeter, etc.,to be thrown by the hand, or from mortars, to set fire to houses.
BALL, n.[Gr.to toss or throw; to leap.] An entertainment of dancing; originally and peculiarly, at the invitation and expense of an individual; but the word is used in America, for a dance at the expense of the attendants.
BALL, v.i. To form into a ball, as snow on horses' hoofs, or on the feet. We say the horse balls, or the snow balls.
ball appears in definitions for these words:
A Aeronaut Aeronautics Aeronautism Aerostat Aerostation Agglomerate Agglomerated Agglomerating Agglomeration Air-balloon Ammunition Angel-shot Anotta Ant-eggs Antimony Armadillo Arquebuse Articulation Artillery Athwart Ball Ballad Ballad-maker Ballad-monger Ballad-singer Ballad-style Ballad-tune Ballad-writer Ballader Balladry Ballast Ballasted Ballasting Ballated Ballet Balloon Ballot Ballot-box Ballotade Bandy Barshot Basilisk Battle-door Bead Bell Billiards Black Blank Blindly Blow-ball Blunderbuss Bob Bombard Bottom Boulet Bowl Bullet Burse Button Button-wood Caliber Cannon Cannon-ball Cannon-shot Cannonade Cant Carbine Carnaval Cartouch Cartridge Caseshot Castor Catch Cavolinite Chain Charge Choose Clevy Cob Cocoon Conglobate Conglobated Conglobation Conglobe Conglobed Conglobing Conglomerate Conglomerated Conglomerating Conglomeration Course Crank Crewel Cricket Culverin Custard-apple Deaden Death Degree Demi-cannon Demi-culverin Dilatation Discharge Dodge Dormouse Dragons-blood Dress Elect Election Empty Enarthrosis Enter Eolipile Escape Excavate Expeditate Expeditation Expire Explode Eye Eyeball Eyestone Fillip Fireball Fives Flow Fly Football Force Galloper Gather Geode Glance Glare Globe Globular Glomerate Glomerated Glomerating Glomeration Glomerous Go Golf Grapeshot Grenade Gun Gunstone Gymnastic Handball Haste Heavy Hit Horizontally Hydrogen Hysterics Impel Interior Jig Jigmaker Kayle Kentledge Lastage Lawing Leaden Levity Light Loach Lodge Manager Marble Masquerade Medicinal Meteor Meterolite Nave Navigation Ogre Pallmall Pederero Pellet Perispheric Pick Pigeon-holes Pile Pill Plane-tree Plug Pocket Point Pointel Pomander Pomme Pompet Print Propel Puff Push Put Racket Rail Rake Red-hot Regard Resilience Resistance Retard Ricochet Ride Rise Roll Rolly-pooly Round Roundness Run Sail Sailing Same See Send Shoot Short Shot Side Smitt Snowball Song Spend Stool-ball Strike Sugar-plum Support Suspend Tennis Through Throw Toss Transport Trap Trappous Trim Unballast Unballasted Unspent Unwind Velocity Venture Verse Vote Waft Wash-ball Whitewood Whiz Wind Windage Windy Wing Woad Wool-ball
A Aeronaut Aeronautics Aeronautism Aerostat Aerostation Agglomerate Agglomerated Agglomerating Agglomeration Air-balloon Ammunition Angel-shot Anotta Ant-eggs Antimony Armadillo Arquebuse Articulation Artillery Athwart Ball Ballad Ballad-maker Ballad-monger Ballad-singer Ballad-style Ballad-tune Ballad-writer Ballader Balladry Ballast Ballasted Ballasting Ballated Ballet Balloon Ballot Ballot-box Ballotade Bandy Barshot Basilisk Battle-door Bead Bell Billiards Black Blank Blindly Blow-ball Blunderbuss Bob Bombard Bottom Boulet Bowl Bullet Burse Button Button-wood Caliber Cannon Cannon-ball Cannon-shot Cannonade Cant Carbine Carnaval Cartouch Cartridge Caseshot Castor Catch Cavolinite Chain Charge Choose Clevy Cob Cocoon Conglobate Conglobated Conglobation Conglobe Conglobed Conglobing Conglomerate Conglomerated Conglomerating Conglomeration Course Crank Crewel Cricket Culverin Custard-apple Deaden Death Degree Demi-cannon Demi-culverin Dilatation Discharge Dodge Dormouse Dragons-blood Dress Elect Election Empty Enarthrosis Enter Eolipile Escape Excavate Expeditate Expeditation Expire Explode Eye Eyeball Eyestone Fillip Fireball Fives Flow Fly Football Force Galloper Gather Geode Glance Glare Globe Globular Glomerate Glomerated Glomerating Glomeration Glomerous Go Golf Grapeshot Grenade Gun Gunstone Gymnastic Handball Haste Heavy Hit Horizontally Hydrogen Hysterics Impel Interior Jig Jigmaker Kayle Kentledge Lastage Lawing Leaden Levity Light Loach Lodge Manager Marble Masquerade Medicinal Meteor Meterolite Nave Navigation Ogre Pallmall Pederero Pellet Perispheric Pick Pigeon-holes Pile Pill Plane-tree Plug Pocket Point Pointel Pomander Pomme Pompet Print Propel Puff Push Put Racket Rail Rake Red-hot Regard Resilience Resistance Retard Ricochet Ride Rise Roll Rolly-pooly Round Roundness Run Sail Sailing Same See Send Shoot Short Shot Side Smitt Snowball Song Spend Stool-ball Strike Sugar-plum Support Suspend Tennis Through Throw Toss Transport Trap Trappous Trim Unballast Unballasted Unspent Unwind Velocity Venture Verse Vote Waft Wash-ball Whitewood Whiz Wind Windage Windy Wing Woad Wool-ball
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