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Costumer :: Costumer (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc..

Grapeshot :: Grapeshot (n.) A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags..

Demicannon :: Demicannon (n.) A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds..

Bowls :: Bowls (n. pl.) See Bowl, a ball, a game..

Air Gun :: Air gun () A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger..

Punt :: Punt (v. t.) To kick (the ball) before it touches the ground, when let fall from the hands..

Parkeria :: Parkeria (n.) A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball..

Ballot :: Ballot (v. t.) To vote for or in opposition to.

Bandy :: Bandy (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy..

Ballet :: Ballet (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers..

Tice :: Tice (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.

Carom :: Carom (n.) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.

Bell :: Bell (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

Snowballing :: Snowballing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snowbal.

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..

Deflection :: Deflection (n.) The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.

Figurante :: Figurante (n. fem.) A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl..

Glomerous :: Glomerous (a.) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.

Play :: Play (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes..

Pill :: Pill (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole..

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