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

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

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

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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 dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily,…

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A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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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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Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.

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A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

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An eye; (Bot.) a leaf bud.

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The organ of sight; an eye.

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Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

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The ball or globe of the eye.

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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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The path described by a heavenly body in its periodical revolution around another body; as, the orbit of Jupiter, of the earth, of the moon.

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To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.

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