ball | noun (n.) Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow. |
| noun (n.) A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc. |
| noun (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (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. |
| noun (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cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller. |
| noun (n.) A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot. |
| noun (n.) A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. |
| noun (n.) The globe or earth. |
| noun (n.) A social assembly for the purpose of dancing. |
| noun (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. |
| verb (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. |
| verb (v. t.) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. |
| verb (v. t.) To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton. |
call | noun (n.) The act of calling; -- usually with the voice, but often otherwise, as by signs, the sound of some instrument, or by writing; a summons; an entreaty; an invitation; as, a call for help; the bugle's call. |
| noun (n.) A signal, as on a drum, bugle, trumpet, or pipe, to summon soldiers or sailors to duty. |
| noun (n.) An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor. |
| noun (n.) A requirement or appeal arising from the circumstances of the case; a moral requirement or appeal. |
| noun (n.) A divine vocation or summons. |
| noun (n.) Vocation; employment. |
| noun (n.) A short visit; as, to make a call on a neighbor; also, the daily coming of a tradesman to solicit orders. |
| noun (n.) A note blown on the horn to encourage the hounds. |
| noun (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty. |
| noun (n.) The cry of a bird; also a noise or cry in imitation of a bird; or a pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry. |
| noun (n.) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land. |
| noun (n.) The privilege to demand the delivery of stock, grain, or any commodity, at a fixed, price, at or within a certain time agreed on. |
| noun (n.) See Assessment, 4. |
| verb (v. t.) To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. |
| verb (v. t.) To summon to the discharge of a particular duty; to designate for an office, or employment, especially of a religious character; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. |
| verb (v. t.) To invite or command to meet; to convoke; -- often with together; as, the President called Congress together; to appoint and summon; as, to call a meeting of the Board of Aldermen. |
| verb (v. t.) To give name to; to name; to address, or speak of, by a specifed name. |
| verb (v. t.) To regard or characterize as of a certain kind; to denominate; to designate. |
| verb (v. t.) To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact; as, they call the distance ten miles; he called it a full day's work. |
| verb (v. t.) To show or disclose the class, character, or nationality of. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a military company. |
| verb (v. t.) To invoke; to appeal to. |
| verb (v. t.) To rouse from sleep; to awaken. |
| verb (v. i.) To speak in loud voice; to cry out; to address by name; -- sometimes with to. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a demand, requirement, or request. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a brief visit; also, to stop at some place designated, as for orders. |
fall | noun (n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship. |
| noun (n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall. |
| noun (n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. |
| noun (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. |
| noun (n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol. |
| noun (n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents. |
| noun (n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence. |
| noun (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope. |
| noun (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara. |
| noun (n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. |
| noun (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet. |
| noun (n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. |
| noun (n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow. |
| noun (n.) The act of felling or cutting down. |
| noun (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels. |
| noun (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. |
| noun (n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. |
| verb (v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. |
| verb (v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. |
| verb (v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean. |
| verb (v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. |
| verb (v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls. |
| verb (v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. |
| verb (v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. |
| verb (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. |
| verb (v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. |
| verb (v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties. |
| verb (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. |
| verb (v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes. |
| verb (v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation. |
| verb (v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. |
| verb (v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive. |
| verb (v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. |
| verb (v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals. |
| verb (v. t.) To belong or appertain. |
| verb (v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. |
| verb (v. t.) To let fall; to drop. |
| verb (v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. |
| verb (v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. |
| verb (v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. |
gall | noun (n.) The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder. |
| noun (n.) The gall bladder. |
| noun (n.) Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor. |
| noun (n.) Impudence; brazen assurance. |
| noun (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut. |
| noun (n.) A wound in the skin made by rubbing. |
| verb (v. t.) To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts. |
| verb (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. |
| verb (v. t.) To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm. |
| verb (v. t.) To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. |
| verb (v. i.) To scoff; to jeer. |
hall | noun (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London. |
| noun (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. |
| noun (n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times. |
| noun (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building. |
| noun (n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. |
| noun (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college). |
| noun (n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock. |
| noun (n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation. |
bead | noun (n.) A prayer. |
| noun (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer. |
| noun (n.) Any small globular body |
| noun (n.) A bubble in spirits. |
| noun (n.) A drop of sweat or other liquid. |
| noun (n.) A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim). |
| noun (n.) A small molding of rounded surface, the section being usually an arc of a circle. It may be continuous, or broken into short embossments. |
| noun (n.) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe; as, the borax bead; the iron bead, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To ornament with beads or beading. |
| verb (v. i.) To form beadlike bubbles. |
beak | noun (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. |
| noun (n.) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. |
| noun (n.) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. |
| noun (n.) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. |
| noun (n.) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. |
| noun (n.) Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land. |
| noun (n.) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead. |
| noun (n.) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. |
| noun (n.) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. |
| noun (n.) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. |
| noun (n.) A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.). |
| noun (n.) A magistrate or policeman. |
beam | noun (n.) Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use. |
| noun (n.) One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. |
| noun (n.) The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another. |
| noun (n.) The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. |
| noun (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches. |
| noun (n.) The pole of a carriage. |
| noun (n.) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam. |
| noun (n.) The straight part or shank of an anchor. |
| noun (n.) The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it. |
| noun (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam. |
| noun (n.) A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort. |
| noun (n.) One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather. |
| verb (v. t.) To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light. |
| verb (v. i.) To emit beams of light. |
bearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
| noun (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. |
| noun (n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint. |
| noun (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. |
| noun (n.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect. |
| noun (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. |
| noun (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall. |
| noun (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
| noun (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports. |
| noun (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal. |
| noun (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
| noun (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
| noun (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. |
| noun (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
| noun (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
| noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. |
| noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. |
| noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
| noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
| noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
| noun (n.) A portable punching machine. |
| noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Bere |
| verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. |
| verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. |
| verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. |
| verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor |
| verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. |
| verb (v. t.) To gain or win. |
| verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. |
| verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. |
| verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. |
| verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
| verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. |
| verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. |
| verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. |
| verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
| verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. |
| verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. |
| verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. |
| verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? |
| verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
| verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. |
| verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
beard | noun (n.) The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults. |
| noun (n.) The long hairs about the face in animals, as in the goat. |
| noun (n.) The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds |
| noun (n.) The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes. |
| noun (n.) The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle. |
| noun (n.) The gills of some bivalves, as the oyster. |
| noun (n.) In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies. |
| noun (n.) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn; as, the beard of grain. |
| noun (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out. |
| noun (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle. |
| noun (n.) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face. |
| noun (n.) An imposition; a trick. |
| verb (v. t.) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. |
| verb (v. t.) To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. |
| verb (v. t.) To deprive of the gills; -- used only of oysters and similar shellfish. |
bell | noun (n.) A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck. |
| noun (n.) A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved. |
| noun (n.) Anything in the form of a bell, as the cup or corol of a flower. |
| noun (n.) That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital. |
| noun (n.) The strikes of the bell which mark the time; or the time so designated. |
| verb (v. t.) To put a bell upon; as, to bell the cat. |
| verb (v. t.) To make bell-mouthed; as, to bell a tube. |
| verb (v. i.) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter by bellowing. |
| verb (v. i.) To call or bellow, as the deer in rutting time; to make a bellowing sound; to roar. |