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A writer of ballads.

Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

To bully; to threaten. [Low] T. Warton.

Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

See Balladry. [Obs.] Milton.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

A crossbow. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

See Bailey.

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 aërial navigation.

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.

Swelled out like a balloon.

One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.