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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Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Round-arm :: Round-arm (a.) Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally..
Eyelid :: Eyelid (n.) The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.
Gasteromycetes :: Gasteromycetes (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs..
Buttonball :: Buttonball (n.) See Buttonwood.
Lay :: Lay (a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
Choanoid :: Choanoid (a.) Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.
Ballahoo :: Ballahoo (n.) Alt. of Ballaho.
Service :: Service (n.) The act of serving the ball.
Pompon :: Pompon (n.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather..
Balotade :: Balotade (n.) See Ballotade.
Gridiron :: Gridiron (n.) A football field.
Leaden :: Leaden (a.) Made of lead; of the nature of lead; as, a leaden ball..
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..
Aeronautics :: Aeronautics (n.) The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning..
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
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..
Umpire :: Umpire (n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed..
Squeezer :: Squeezer (n.) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural..
Bound :: Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball..
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