BPage 22
- English Word Ballad monger Definition A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
- English Word Ballade Definition A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
- English Word Ballader Definition A writer of ballads.
- English Word Balladry Definition Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
- English Word Ballahoo Definition Alt. of Ballahou
- English Word Ballahou Definition A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.
- English Word Ballarag Definition To bully; to threaten.
- English Word Ballast Definition Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.
- English Word Ballast Definition Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.
- English Word Ballast Definition Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.
- English Word Ballast Definition The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in making concrete.
- English Word Ballast Definition Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security.
- English Word Ballast Definition To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.
- English Word Ballast Definition To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel, stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
- English Word Ballast Definition To keep steady; to steady, morally.
- English Word Ballastage Definition A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
- English Word Ballasted Definition of Ballast
- English Word Ballasting Definition of Ballast
- English Word Ballasting Definition That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.
- English Word Ballatry Definition See Balladry.
- English Word Balled Definition of Ball
- English Word Ballet Definition An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
- English Word Ballet Definition The company of persons who perform the ballet.
- English Word Ballet Definition A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
- English Word Ballet Definition A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.
- English Word Balling Definition of Ball
- English Word Ballist/ Definition of Ballista
- English Word Ballista Definition An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
- English Word Ballister Definition A crossbow.
- English Word Ballistic Definition Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.