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Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Colocynth :: Colocynth (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd..

Verbalism :: Verbalism (n.) Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.

Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon..

Volley :: Volley (n.) A return of the ball before it touches the ground.

Button :: Button (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass..

Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

Pommel :: Pommel (n.) A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in for.

Pull :: Pull (n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side..

Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..

Ecballium :: Ecballium (n.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared..

Bead :: Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer..

Conglobate :: Conglobate (a.) Collected into, or forming, a rounded mass or ball; as, the conglobate [lymphatic] glands; conglobate flowers..

Balloonry :: Balloonry (n.) The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.

Cant :: Cant (n.) A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant..

Catstick :: Catstick (n.) A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.

Let :: Let (n.) A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

Cero :: Cero (n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis)..

Pomander :: Pomander (n.) A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball..

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

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