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A game played by volleying a large inflated ball with the hands over a net 7 ft. 6 in. high.

Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.

A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.

A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

and adv. Above. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake.

A dirigible balloon.

An aërial navigator; a balloonist.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

A balloon.

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

a form of squeezer for the puddle ball;

Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.

A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.

s, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

row in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.