Definition of ball

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Ball (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.

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Verbally :: Verbally (adv.) Word for word; verbatim.
Puffball :: Puffball (n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin..
Ricochet :: Ricochet (v. i.) To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n..
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..
Ballad :: Ballad (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.
Pick :: Pick (v.) To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information..
Ballad :: Ballad (v. i.) To make or sing ballads.
Ballade :: Ballade (n.) 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..
Propel :: Propel (v. t.) To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder..
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Team :: Team (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc..
Balled :: Balled (imp. & p. p.) of Bal.
Fielder :: Fielder (n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
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..
Bye :: Bye (n.) A run made upon a missed ball; as, to steal a bye..
Hop :: Hop (n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball..
Blackball :: Blackball (n.) A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work..
Glomeration :: Glomeration (n.) That which is formed into a ball; a ball.
Eglomerate :: Eglomerate (v. t.) To unwind, as a thread from a ball..
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