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To discharge from duty or obligation, as a ball.

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.

To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [Obs.] "The ponderous ball expires." Dryden.

with violence and noise, as by powder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.

gan of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjuncti…

r of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

erage; middling; as, a fair specimen. The news is very fair and good, my lord. Shak. Fair ball. (Baseball) (a) A ball passing over the home base at the height called for by the batsman, and delivered by the pitcher while wholly within the lines of his position and facing the batsman. (b) A batted ball that falls inside…

by a player on side who makes a prescribed signal that he will not attempt to advance the ball when caught. He must not then be interfered with.

A sort of love song or light impromptu ballad. [Obs.] Shak. The fancy, all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had cong…

A ball or general dance, as in Mexico. [Colloq.]

Failure to serve the ball into the proper court. At fault, unable to find the scent and continue chase; hance, in trouble ot embarrassment, and unable to proceed; puzzled; thhrown off the track. -- To find fault, to find reason for blaming or complaining; to express dissatisfaction; to complain; -- followed by with be…

nse of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused Milton.

To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.

To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak.

ith a cigar-shaped bulb of lead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water.

ng fire by smothering it with some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid. -- Fire balloon. (a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire placed in the lower part. (b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite at a regulated height. Simmonds. -- Fire bar, a grate bar. --…

In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also fitte, fytte, etc.] To play some pleasant fit. Spenser.