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The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.

A club or company organized for singing glees, and (by extension) part songs, ballads, etc.

dy, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.

Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane…

To gather or wind into a ball; to collect into a spherical form or mass, as threads.

The act of forming or gathering into a ball or round mass; the state of being gathered into a ball; conglomeration.

Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. [Obs.] Blount.

A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts. Goal keeper, the player charged with the defense of the goal.

the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature. -- Golden balls, three gilt balls used as a sign of a pawnbroker's office or shop; -- originally taken from the coat of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards. -- Golden bull. See under Bull, an edict. --…

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

ider (Zoöl.), any small or young spider which spins webs by which to sail in the air. See Ballooning spider.

A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

A hollow ball or shell of iron filled with powder of other explosive, ignited by means of a fuse, and thrown from the hand among enemies. Hand grenade. (a) A small grenade of iron or glass, usually about two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon…

A football field. Gridiron pendulum. See under Pendulum. -- Gridiron valve (Steam Engine), a slide valve with several parallel perforations corresponding to openings in the seat on which the valve moves.

A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.

" As an adjective, suitable to, or resembling the production of, Grub Street. I 'd sooner ballads write, and grubstreet lays. Gap.

A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder. Ball gudgeon. See under Ball.

ecies of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.

-- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.