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One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

Liable to careen or be overest, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail.

sirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; --…

A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, or other ingredients, highly seasoned, and fried.

folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -- used in naval actions for cutting the enemy's rigging.

The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse.

A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

upping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping. Cup and ball, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the cup; bilboquet. Milman.- Cup and can, familiar companions. --…

curve a line; to curve a pipe; to cause to swerve from a straight course; as, to curve a ball in pitching it.

a professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.

The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.

in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball. Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.

kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball.

Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]