Vocabulary : Balefulness to Balker

Balefulness : The quality or state of being baleful.
Baling : of Bale
Balisaur : A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).
Balister : A crossbow.
Balistoid : Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish.

Balistraria : A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.
Balize : A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.
Balk : A ridge of land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. ;; A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." ;; One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge. ;; A hindrance or disappointment; a check. ;; A sudden and obstinate stop; a failure. ;; A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball. ;; To leave or make balks in. ;; To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. ;; To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. ;; To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. ;; To disappoint; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to /hwart; as, to balk expectation. ;; To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition. ;; To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks. ;; To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
Balked : of Balk
Balker : One who, or that which balks. ;; A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

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