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Butterball :: Butterball (n.) The buffel duck.

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A bomb or shell.

Puddle-ball :: Puddle-ball (n.) The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

Exophthalmia :: Exophthalmia (n.) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease..

Fault :: Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.

Spermosphere :: Spermosphere (n.) A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma..

Rolling :: Rolling (a.) Rotating on an axis, or moving along a surface by rotation; turning over and over as if on an axis or a pivot; as, a rolling wheel or ball..

Ninepins :: Ninepins (n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling..

Arthrodia :: Arthrodia (n.) A form of diarthrodial articulation in which the articular surfaces are nearly flat, so that they form only an imperfect ball and socket..

Caballed :: Caballed (imp. & p. p.) of Caba.

Trigon :: Trigon (n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.

Buffel Duck :: Buffel duck () A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead..

Water Ballast :: Water ballast () Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast..

Croquet :: Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet..

Hypermetropy :: Hypermetropy (n.) A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia..

Bound :: Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball..

Knock :: Knock (v. t.) To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post; to knock a lamp off the table..

Snowball :: Snowball (v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.

Dauber :: Dauber (n.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber..

Unlawed :: Unlawed (a.) Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.

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