Definition of ball

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Ball (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow..

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Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound..
Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Butterball :: Butterball (n.) The buffel duck.
Outplay :: Outplay (v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball..
Jig :: "Jig (n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad..
Loop :: Loop (n.) A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.
Rissole :: Rissole (n.) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled..
Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..
Armadillo :: Armadillo (n.) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Pommette :: Pommette (a.) Having two balls or protuberances at each end; -- said of a cross.
Costume :: Costume (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes..
Emball :: Emball (v. t.) To encircle or embrace.
Snowball :: Snowball (n.) A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass..
Hypermetropy :: Hypermetropy (n.) A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia..
Calculated :: Calculated (p. p. & a.) Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball..
Cannonade :: Cannonade (n.) The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance..
Conglobate :: Conglobate (v. t.) To collect or form into a ball or rounded mass; to gather or mass together.
Hole :: Hole (n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball..
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