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A hollow perforated sphere of metal containing a loose ball which causes it to sound when moved.

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

The toy called cup and ball.

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

ing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.

A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.

A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. [Obs.] Silkworms finish their bottoms in . . . fifteen days. Mortimer.

To rebound, as an elastic ball.

A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

See Bowl, a ball, a game.

An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.

The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.

Jet black. "Bugle eyeballs." Shak.