Difference between revisions of "Ball"

== King James [[Dictionary]] == <p> BALL, n.L. pila A ball may signify a mass from collecting, or it may be that which is driven, from the root of L. pello probably the former. </p> 1. A round body a spherical substance, whether natural or artificial or a body nearly round as, a ball for play a ball of thread a ball of snow. 2. A bullet a ball of iron or lead for cannon, muskets, &c. 3. A printer's ball, consisting of hair or wool, covered with leather or skin, and fastened to a stock, called a ball-stock, and used to put ink on the types in the forms. 4. The globe or earth, from its figure. 5. A globe borne as an ensign of authority as, to hold the ball of a kingdom. 6. Any part of the body that is round or protuberant as, the eye ball the ball of the thumb or foot. 7. The weight at the bottom of a pendulum. 8. [[Among]] the [[Cornish]] miners in England, a tin mine. 9. In pyrotechnics, a composition of combustible ingredients, which serve to burn, smoke or give light. <p> Ball-stock, among printers, a stock somewhat hollow at one end, to which balls of skin, stuffed with wool, are fastened, and which serves as a handle. </p> <p> Ball-vein, among miners, a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses, of a circular form, containing sparkling particles. </p> <p> [[Ball]] and socket, an instrument used in surveying and astronomy, made of brass, with a perpetual screw, to move horizontally, obliquely, or vertically. </p> <p> Puff-ball, in botany, the Lycoperdon, a genus of fungeses. </p> <p> Fire-ball, a meteor a luminous globe darting through the atmosphere also, a bag of canvas filled with gunpowder, sulphur, pitch, saltpeter, &c.,to be thrown by the hand, or from mortars, to set fire to houses. </p> <p> BALL, n.Gr.to toss or throw to leap. An entertainment of dancing originally and peculiarly, at the invitation and expense of an individual but the word is used in America, for a dance at the expense of the attendants. </p> <p> 19 </p> <p> BALL, To form into a ball, as snow on horses' hoofs, or on the feet. We say the horse balls, or the snow balls. </p> == Webster's Dictionary == <p> (1): </p> <p> (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. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (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. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (n.) The globe or earth. </p> <p> (5): </p> <p> (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. </p> <p> (6): </p> <p> (n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. </p> <p> (7): </p> <p> (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. </p> <p> (8): </p> <p> (n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. </p> <p> (9): </p> <p> (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. </p> <p> (10): </p> <p> (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. </p> <p> (11): </p> <p> (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. </p> <p> (12): </p> <p> (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. </p> <p> (13): </p> <p> (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. </p> <p> (14): </p> <p> (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. </p> == [[International]] Standard [[Bible]] [[Encyclopedia]] == <p> '''''bôl''''' ( דּוּר , <i> '''''dūr''''' </i> ): A rare [[Hebrew]] word used in this sense only in Isaiah 22:18 , and correctly rendered in the [[American]] Standard [[Revised]] Version "He will surely wind thee round and round, <i> and toss thee </i> like a ball into a large country." [[De]] Or, Böttcher, Jastrow, following Talmud, regard the noun as <i> '''''kaddūr''''' </i> , but perhaps incorrectly. See also [[Games]] . </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (דּוּר, dur), well known as being used in various sports and games from the earliest times, several kinds of which are depicted on the [[Egyptian]] monuments (Wilkinson, 1:198 sq. abridg.). The word occurs in this sense in Isaiah 22:18, but in a subsequent chapter (29:3) it is employed of a ring or circle, and translated "round about" in the prophecy of the siege of Jerusalem. In Ezekiel 24:5, in the symbol of the same event, it is translated "burn," but probably means heap, as in the margin. </p> <p> Among the [[Egyptians]] the balls were made of leather or skin, sewed with string, crosswise, in the same manner as our own, and stuffed with bran or husks of corn; and those which have been found at [[Thebes]] are about three inches in diameter. Others were made of string, or of the stalks of rushes platted together so as to form a circular mass, and covered, like the former, with leather. They appear also to have a smaller kind of ball, probably of the same materials, and covered, like many of our own, with slips of leather of an elliptical shape, sewed together longitudinally, and meeting in a common point at both ends, each alternate slip being of a different color; but these have only been met with in pottery (Wilkinson, 1:200). </p>

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