Vocabulary : Ball-flower to Balloon fish

Ball-flower : An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.
Balling : of Ball
Ballista : An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.
Ballister : A crossbow.
Ballistic : Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. ;; Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile.

Ballistics : The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.
Ballistite : A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.
Ballium : See Bailey.
Balloon : A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation. ;; A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. ;; A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form. ;; A bomb or shell. ;; A game played with a large inflated ball. ;; The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. ;; To take up in, or as if in, a balloon. ;; To go up or voyage in a balloon. ;; To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
Balloon fish : A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.

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