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<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Pirotechnics & Mil.)</fld> <def>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>as, a fire <ex>ball</ex>; a stink <ex>ball</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a <i>ballstock</i>; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; <as>as, the <ex>ball</ex> of the thumb; the <ex>ball</ex> of the foot.</as></def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.</def>

<i>White.</i>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>The globe or earth.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<blockquote>Move round the dark terrestrial <b>ball</b>. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Ball and socket joint</col>, <cd>a joint in which a ball moves within a socket, so as to admit of motion in every direction within certain limits.</cd> -- <col>Ball bearings</col>, <cd>a mechanical device for lessening the friction of axle bearings by means of small loose metal balls.</cd> -- <col>Ball cartridge</col>, <cd>a cartridge containing a ball, as distinguished from a blank cartridge, containing only powder.</cd> -- <col>Ball cock</col>, <cd>a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of a lever.</cd> -- <col>Ball gudgeon</col>, <cd>a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. <i>Knight<i>.</cd> -- <col>Ball lever</col>, <cd>the lever used in a ball cock.</cd> -- <col>Ball of the eye</col>, <cd>the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye.</cd> -- <col>Ball valve</col> <fld>(Mach.)</fld>, <cd>a contrivance by which a ball, placed in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve.</cd> -- <col>Ball vein</col> <fld>(Mining)</fld>, <cd>a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Three balls</col>, or <col>Three golden balls</col></mcol>, <cd>a pawnbroker's sign or shop.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Globe</er>.</syn>

<h1>Ball</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Ball</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Balled</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Balling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; <as>as, the horse <ex>balls</ex>; the snow <ex>balls</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Ball</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Ball</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Metal.)</fld> <def>To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To form or wind into a ball; <as>as, to <ex>ball</ex> cotton</as>.</def>

<h1>Ball</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Ball</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bal</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>baler</ets> to dance, fr. LL. <ets>ballare</ets>. Of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. <ets><?/</ets> to toss or throw, or <ets><?/</ets>, <ets><?/</ets>, to leap, bound, <ets><?/</ets> to dance, jump about; or cf. 1st <er>Ball</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.</def>

<h1>Ballad</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Bal"lad</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>balade</ets>, OF. <ets>balade</ets>, F. <ets>ballade</ets>, fr. Pr. <ets>ballada</ets> a dancing song, fr. <ets>ballare</ets> to dance; cf. It. <ets>ballata</ets>. See 2d <er>Ball</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and <er>Ballet</er>.]</ety> <def>A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; <as>as, the <ex>ballad</ex> of Chevy Chase</as>; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.</def>

<h1>Ballad</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Bal"lad</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make or sing ballads.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Ballad</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Bal"lad</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make mention of in ballads.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Ballade</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Bal*lade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Ballad</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Ballader</h1> <Xpage=114>

<hw>Bal"lad*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A writer of ballads.</def>

<h1>Ballad monger</h1> <Xpage=114>