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Volley :: Volley (v. i.) To return the ball before it touches the ground.

Catcher :: Catcher (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.

Cricket :: Cricket (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides..

Conglobe :: Conglobe (v. t. ) To gather into a ball; to collect into a round mass.

Ball :: Ball (n.) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller..

Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon..

Earthstar :: Earthstar (n.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores..

Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.

Stinker :: Stinkball (n.) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

Ballader :: Ballader (n.) A writer of ballads.

Globe :: Globe (n.) The earth; the terraqueous ball; -- usually preceded by the definite article.

Ballad Monger :: Ballad monger () A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.

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..

Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

Pallone :: Pallone (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball..

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..

Lament :: Lament (v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like..

Joint :: "Joint (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation..

Ballad :: Ballad (v. t.) To make mention of in ballads.

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