Ball: alternatives and connections

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.

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To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of mov…

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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gl…

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To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.

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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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of Shoot

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A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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A plaything for children; a bawble.

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A twist; a convolution.

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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striki…

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A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

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A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

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Alt. of Clue

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A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.

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The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.

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A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

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A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works an…

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An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.

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A little globe; a small particle of matter, of a spherical form.

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Same as Goaf.

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A large tree, the Artocarpus integrifolia, common in the East Indies, closely allied to the breadfruit, from which it differs in having its leaves en…

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A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies fr…

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A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.

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A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.

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A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or anything resembling such a mass.

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A little sphere or spherical body; as, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

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A handle; a stale, or stele.

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A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striki…

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A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striki…

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An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.

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That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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of Manus

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A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

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The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.

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Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea v…

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A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striki…

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A short, thick piece of anything.

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A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.

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An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or album…

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See Methylal.

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A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.

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A small mass of matter of irregular shape; an irregular or shapeless mass; as, a lump of coal; a lump of iron ore.

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The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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A blank window or panel.

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A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tub…

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One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

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A testicle.

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