Word Finder - ball

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A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

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a ball of spittle; a fecal ball

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A round or ellipsoidal object.

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(mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle.

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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.

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A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.

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To form or wind into a ball.

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to ball cotton

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To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

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To have sexual intercourse with.

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To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.

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The horse balls; the snow balls.

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(usually in present participle) To be hip or cool.

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To play basketball.

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To punish by affixing a ball and chain

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An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.

Julie never missed a ball, a promenade, or a play.

She moved, and the ball rolled off her knees.

My crystal ball doesn't work as well as it should.

A second and a third cannon ball flew past.

She curled into a ball and tried to go back to sleep.

Carmen made a ball out of a pair of socks.

I told him I had no idea how you accomplished what you did but you were a crystal ball of an asset to us.

Her stomach twisted into a ball.

There were wide eighteenth- century ball gowns, women in little black dresses, one in a fifties poodle skirt, and several in dark dresses with ornate brocade on the bodice, like that of wealthy Middle Age royalty.

On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron.

I know she'd have a ball.

When it didn't, she uncurled herself from the ball she was in.

Maybe we could have a picnic, or play ball together.

Now they could discuss things instead of avoiding sensitive subjects - build on their relationship instead of tearing it down with the same demolition ball.

She stared at him, her insides winding into a tight ball.

A yellow ball of hissing fur flew past her.

The words twisted her heart into a ball.

A cannon ball killed someone behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dolokhov with blood.

Ben, we voted you in so we're willing to give you the ball.

The man approaching her had nearly reached her, and she huddled into a tighter ball.

The genus Hevea was formerly called Siphonia, and the tree named Pao de Xerringa by the Portuguese, from the use by the Omaqua Indians of squirts or syringes made from a piece of pipe inserted in a hollow flask-shaped ball of rubber.

The swelling of the mountain of Venus is simply the indication of the size of the muscles of the ball of the thumb, and can be increased by their exercise.

In the cathedral may be seen the chain ball which killed General St Ruth at the battle of Aughrim, and the spurs which he wore.

See Ball, pp. 260-261, and Scharer in loc., for a full bibliography.

A large one is known as the cannon ball.

I haven't had personal contact with him lately but I hear he's trying to snow ball them but he's subject to subpoena so he has to be careful.

Jule's hand grew too bright to look at directly, and a small ball formed in his palm.

He would play semi pro ball over the summer, and maybe, if he could get signed, Mexican or South American ball in the winter.

They were in different hands from different times, the top of the chamber rimmed with drawings of couples holding hands and standing on a ball she took to be Anshan.

I had to ball that fat cow Gladys to get in here and then pay a hell of a premium to those guys just to get a room of my own.

If anything, winter biking was more pleasant without playing dodge ball with rushing tourists and campers along the summer-busy, shoulder-less highway.

Katie followed her instincts through the dreamscape until she climbed the last rocks and saw Rhyn curled in a ball just on the other side of a small ridge on the Sanctuary.  Her heart leapt, and she hurried to him.  In her last dream, he'd been there one moment then disappeared, just when she reached out for him.  She couldn't help wondering if these dreams were more than dreams.  This wouldn't be the first time she lived out reality in a dream.

Sunday was eight hours of listening to Vinnie's uninformative babble, followed by a TV ball game, a couple or three beers and a steak.

Robinson furiously backpedaled to parry the ball into the air but Giggs was lurking with intent and flicked a header... "

This lowers the center of gravity to deliver reduced backspin, higher, longer, straighter ball flight.

With all his might, he kicked the ball straight at the goal.

He hits the ball with all that he's got.

It can knock a ball across the court which, even at full run, you will not be able to return.

I'll unwind the world like a rubber band on a golf ball 's insides every morning, put it back together every night.

A cannon ball struck the very end of the earth work by which he was standing, crumbling down the earth; a black ball flashed before his eyes and at the same instant plumped into something.

The inner coat enveloping the spores is supported, like a ball, either with or without a stalk on the upper face of the star.

If V is the volume of a ball, H the strength of the field at its centre, and re its apparent susceptibility, the force in the direction x is f= K'VH X dH/dx; and if K',, and are the apparent susceptibilities of the same ball in air and in liquid oxygen, K' Q -K'o is equal to the difference between the susceptibilities of the two media.

Amongst his numerous followers, who have, however, sometimes vulgarized their figures and plots, may be mentioned Tihamer Almasi (Milimdri, A Miniszterelnok bdlja, " The Ball of the Premier ") and Alexander Somlo.

Next day he led his followers, strengthened by many Kentish recruits, on the road to London, being joined at Maidstone by John Ball, whom the mob had liberated from the archbishop's prison.

About 1 io persons were executed for the rebellion in Kent and Essex, including John Ball, and Jack Straw, Tyler's chief lieutenant.'

It is worn by gods and men, and with the latter sometimes has ear-flaps (at Lachish, with other varieties, Ball, 190) or is surmounted by a feather or crest.

When the first ball or " gathering 'T has cooled sufficiently, the whole is again dipped into the molten glass and a further layer adheres to the pipe-end, thus forming a larger ball.

Ball (based on Hittite names recorded on Egyptian and Assyrian monuments, and applied to word-groups on the Hittite monuments).

Of other common types of condenser, we may notice the "spiral" or "worm" type, which consists of a glass, copper or tin worm enclosed in a vessel in which water circulates; and the ball condenser, which consists of two concentric spheres, the vapour passing through the inner sphere and water circulating in the space between this and the outer (in another form the vapour circulates in a shell, on the outside and inside of which water circulates).

When asleep they roll themselves into a ball, as shown in the figure.