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Attempt; endeavor; essay; as, he made an offer to catch the ball. "Some offer and attempt." South.

ily, sometimes seen in hothouses. It has curious flowers which have some resemblance to a ballet dancer, whence the popular name. Called also dancing girls. -- Opera glass, a short telescope with concave eye lenses of low power, usually made double, that is, with a tube and set of glasses for each eye; a lorgnette; --…

An inflammation of the membranes or coats of the eye or of the eyeball.

Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.

An orb or ball. [Rare & Improper] Roll the lucid orbit of an eye. Young.

An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system.

To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.

To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.

A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind ine wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behing the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places.

composition, for a full orchestra, designed as an introduction to an oratorio, opera, or ballet, or as an independent piece; -- called in the latter case a concert overture.

A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Eve…

An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

vance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

ocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.

. Parliament heel, the inclination of a ship when made to careen by shifting her cargo or ballast. -- Parliament hinge (Arch.), a hinge with so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or shutter to swing back flat against the wall. -- Long Parliament, Rump Parliament. See under Long, and Rump.…

name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot. [Cant, U.S.]

A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs. This arrangement permits the feet to acc…

A little ball; as, a pellet of wax .

A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.