BPage 32
- English Word Ball Definition A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
- English Word Ball Definition The globe or earth.
- English Word Ball Definition To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.
- English Word Ball Definition To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
- English Word Ball Definition To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
- English Word Ball Definition A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
- English Word Ball-flower Definition An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
- English Word Ballad Definition A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.
- English Word Ballad Definition To make or sing ballads.
- English Word Ballad Definition To make mention of in ballads.
- English Word Ballad monger Definition A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
- English Word Ballade Definition A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
- English Word Ballader Definition A writer of ballads.
- English Word Balladry Definition Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
- English Word Ballahoo Definition Alt. of Ballahou
- English Word Ballahou Definition A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
- English Word Ballarag Definition To bully; to threaten.
- English Word Ballast Definition Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
- English Word Ballast Definition Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
- English Word Ballast Definition Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.