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The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal . Safety touchdown. See under Safety.

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.

A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.

A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.

A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.

The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing.

of three oboli; hence, mean; worthless. [Obs.] It may pass current . . . for a triobolar ballad. Cheyne.

ce the catch and troll, while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life. Prof. Wilson.

To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball. R. A. Proctor.

A slight natural covering; an integument. The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye. Holland.

tric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the move…

An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled. Dr. W. Smith.

ties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others. Barrow.

Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- said of dogs.

separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.

One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells. Air valve, Ball valve, Check valve, etc. See under Air. Ball, Check, etc. -- Double-beat valve, a kind of balance valve usually consisting of a movable, open-ended, turban-shaped shell provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one above another,…

wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light.

To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon. I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it. Shak.