BPage 23
- English Word Ballistic Definition Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.
- English Word Ballistics Definition The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.
- English Word Ballium Definition See Bailey.
- English Word Balloon Definition A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
- English Word Balloon Definition A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
- English Word Balloon Definition A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- English Word Balloon Definition A bomb or shell.
- English Word Balloon Definition A game played with a large inflated ball.
- English Word Balloon Definition The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- English Word Balloon Definition To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- English Word Balloon Definition To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- English Word Balloon Definition To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
- English Word Balloon fish Definition A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
- English Word Ballooned Definition Swelled out like a balloon.
- English Word Ballooner Definition One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
- English Word Ballooning Definition The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
- English Word Ballooning Definition The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
- English Word Ballooning spider Definition A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
- English Word Balloonist Definition An aeronaut.
- English Word Balloonry Definition The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
- English Word Ballot Definition Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
- English Word Ballot Definition The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
- English Word Ballot Definition The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
- English Word Ballot Definition To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
- English Word Ballot Definition To vote for or in opposition to.
- English Word Ballotade Definition A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
- English Word Ballotation Definition Voting by ballot.
- English Word Balloted Definition of Ballot
- English Word Balloter Definition One who votes by ballot.
- English Word Ballotin Definition An officer who has charge of a ballot box.