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Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly..

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..

Lacrosse :: Lacrosse (n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a crosse. The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field..

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..

Field :: Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder..

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..

Cro-quette :: Cro-quette (n.) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried..

Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object..

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

Fault :: Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

Ballot :: Ballot (n.) Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting..

Cockeye :: Cockeye (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead..

Election :: Election (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor..

Agglomerate :: Agglomerate (v. t.) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass..

Expeditate :: Expeditate (v. t.) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer..

Glomeration :: Glomeration (n.) That which is formed into a ball; a ball.

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.

Orb :: Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound..

Pompet :: Pompet (n.) The ball formerly used to ink the type.

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London..

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