ball
Definitions of ball
n. - Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
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n. - A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
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n. - A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
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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.
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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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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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
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n. - 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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n. - A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
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n. - The globe or earth.
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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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v. t. - To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
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v. t. - To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
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n. - A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
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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.
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The word "ball" uses 4 letters: A B L L.
No direct anagrams for ball found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after ball (in bold), or to abll in any order:
e - label s - balls u - bulla y - bally
Shorter words found within ball:
ab al alb all ba bal la lab
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