Ball |
Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. |
n. |
Ball |
A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. |
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Ball |
A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. |
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Ball |
Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets. |
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Ball |
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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Ball |
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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller. |
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Ball |
A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. |
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Ball |
A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. |
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Ball |
The globe or earth. |
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Ball |
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls. |
v. i. |
Ball |
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. |
v. t. |
Ball |
To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. |
v. t. |
Ball |
A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. |
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Minie ball |
A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel. |
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Noon-flower |
The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. |
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Puddle-ball |
The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled. |
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Whitworth ball |
A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun. |
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Flower |
In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage. |
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Flower |
That part of a plant destined to produce seed, and hence including one or both of the sexual organs; an organ or combination of the organs of reproduction, whether inclosed by a circle of foliar parts or not. A complete flower consists of two essential parts, the stamens and the pistil, and two floral envelopes, the corolla and callyx. In mosses the flowers consist of a few special leaves surrounding or subtending organs called archegonia. See Blossom, and Corolla. |
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Flower |
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth. |
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