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Buttonball :: Buttonball (n.) See Buttonwood.

Elater :: Elater (n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative..

Ophthalmia :: Ophthalmia (n.) An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.

Glaucoma :: Glaucoma (n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball..

Circumferentor :: Circumferentor (n.) A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint..

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

Ballarag :: Ballarag (v. i.) To bully; to threaten.

Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound..

Buttonwood :: Buttonwood (n.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa..

Field :: Field (v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball..

Fandango :: Fandango (n.) A ball or general dance, as in Mexico..

Chartism :: Chartism (n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter..

Peridium :: Peridium (n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars..

Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..

Xerophthalmia :: Xerophthalmia (n.) An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Catcher :: Catcher (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.

Strabotomy :: Strabismus (n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye..

Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

Top :: Top (n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out..

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