Definition of ball

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Ball (n.) A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball..

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Tice :: Tice (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Balloting :: Balloting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ballo.
Balloon :: Balloon (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon..
Glomerous :: Glomerous (a.) Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass.
Globe :: Globe (n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.
Bottom :: Bottom (n.) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
Canister :: Canister (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot..
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.
Blowball :: Blowball (n.) The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away..
Bur Fish :: Bur fish () A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish..
Lawe :: Lawe (v. t.) To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet..
Conglobe :: Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.
Unwind :: Unwind (v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn..
Blank :: Blank (a.) Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot..
Round :: Round (adv.) In circumference; as, a ball is ten inches round..
Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; as, to bound a ball on the floor..
Over :: Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places..
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..
Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..
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