Definition of ball

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Ball (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football..

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Snowball :: Snowball (n.) The Guelder-rose.
Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Tice :: Tice (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Pall-mall :: Pall-mall (n.) A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall..
Thenar :: Thenar (n.) The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.
Buttonball :: Buttonball (n.) See Buttonwood.
Thud :: Thud (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth..
Trapball :: Trapball (n.) An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4..
Zope :: Zope (n.) A European fresh-water bream (Abramis ballerus).
Volley :: Volley (n.) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.
Agglomerated :: Agglomerated (a.) Collected into a ball, heap, or mass..
Tricarballylic :: Tricarballylic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance..
Ballot :: Ballot (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.
Send :: Send (v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like..
Choanoid :: Choanoid (a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
Theta :: Theta (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death..
Blank :: Blank (n.) A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form..
Vote :: Vote (v. i.) To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To drop; to deposit; as, to cast a ballot..
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