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A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Ægagropila) which forms a globular mass.

One unprovided with motive power.

A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.

A puffball.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

The surf duck.

Same as Puffball.

The Guelder-rose. Snowball tree (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.

An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.

A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, whe…

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.

A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex tribasic organic acid, C3H5.(CO2H)3 occurring naturally in unripe beet roots, and produced artificially from glycerin as a white crystalline substance.

To free from ballast; to discharge ballast from. Totten.

Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast.

In a verbal manner; orally.