Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">       In strifeful terms with him to balk.

       Spenser.

       2. To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

       µ This has been regarded as an Americanism, but it occurs in Spenser's ½Fa‰rie Queene,¸ Book IV., 10, xxv.

       Ne ever ought but of their true loves talkt,

       Ne ever for rebuke or blame of any balkt.

       Balk, v.i. [Prob. from D. balken to bray, bawl.] To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

       Balk¶er (?), n. [See 2d Balk.] One who, or that which balks.

       Balk¶er (?), n. [See last Balk.] A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

       Bale¶ingÏly, adv. In manner to balk or frustrate.

       Balk¶ish, a. Uneven; ridgy. [R.]

       Holinshed.

       Balk¶y (?), a. Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

       Ball (?), n. [OE. bal, balle; akin to OHG. balla, palla, G. ball, Icel. b”llr, ball; cf. F. balle. Cf. 1st Bale, n., Pallmall.] 1. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

       2. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

       3. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.

       4. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rif?e ball; Ð often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

       5. (Pirotechnics & Mil.) 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.

       6. (Print.) A leatherÐcovered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; Ð formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

       7. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

       8. (Far.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.

       White.

       9. The globe or earth.

       Pope.

       Move round the dark terrestrial ball.

       Addison.

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

       Syn.Ð See Globe.

       Ball, v.i. [imp. & p.p. Balled (?); p.pr. & vb.n. Balling.] 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.

       Ball, v.t. 1. (Metal.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

       2. To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.

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

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

       Bal¶lad, v.i. To make or sing ballads. [Obs.]

       Bal¶lad, v.t. To make mention of in ballads. [Obs.]

       BalÏlade¶ (?), n. [See Ballad, n.] 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.

       Bal¶ladÏer (?), n. A writer of ballads.

       Bal¶lad mon·ger (?). [See Monger.] A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.

       Shak.

       Bal¶ladÏry (?), n. [From Ballad, n. ] Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. ½Base balladry is so beloved.¸

       Drayton.

       Bal¶laÏhoo, Bal¶laÏhou } (?), n. A fastÐsailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

       Bal¶laÏrag (?), v.i. [Corrupted fr. bullirag.] To bully; to threaten. [Low]

       T. Warton.

       Bal¶last (?), n. [D. ballast; akin to Dan. baglast, ballast, OSw. barlast, Sw. ballast. The first part is perh. the same word as E. bare, adj.; the second is last a burden, and hence the meaning a bare, or mere, load. See Bare, a., and Last load.] 1. (Naut.) Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

       2. Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

       3. Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

       4. The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.

       5. Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.

       It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity.

       Barrow.

       Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. Ð Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

       Bal¶last, v.t. [imp. & p.p. Ballasted; p.pr. & vb.n. Ballasting.] 1. To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.

       2. To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.

       3. To keep steady; to steady, morally.

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