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Ball
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A pitched ball, not struck at by the batsman, which fails to pass over the home base at a height not greater than the batsman's shoulder nor less than his knee.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
(4):
(n.) The globe or earth.
(5):
(n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
(6):
(n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
(7):
(n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
(8):
(n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; - formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
(11):
(n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
(12):
(v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
(13):
(v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
(14):
(v. i.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ball'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/ball.html. 1828.
