ballot1 (balot)

[Early mod. E. also ballat, ballet; The judges against him. IMG:content-1596.png:[blocks in formation] The convention did not ballot until its third day. with the axis of the shell. balneary with an odorous balsam; also occasionally the balsam-fir, Abies balsamea, which yields the Canada balsam. (d) The sweet balm, Dracocephalum Canariense (see above). Balm of heaven, one of the many names given in California to the Umbellularia Californica, a lauraceous tree with very strongly aromatic foliage. balm (bam), v. t. [ Shrouded in cloth of state! Balm'd and entreasur'd with full bags of spices! Shak., Pericles, iii. 2. 2. To anoint as with balm or with anything fragrant or medicinal. Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters. Shak., T. of the S., Ind., i. 3. To soothe; mitigate; a uage; heal. Oppre ed nature sleeps: This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses. Shak ., Lear, iii. 6. [Obsolete or archaic in all uses.] bal maiden (bal'mā"dn), n . [ bal + maiden .] A girl or young woman employed in the mines 2. To bound, as in the bore of a cannon: as, spherical projectiles ballot in the bore of the piece.-3. 3. To select by lot; draw lots (for): as, to ballot for places. II.t trans. 1. To vote for or against by ballot; choose or elect by ballot. None of the competitors arriving at a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 262. 2. To choose by lot; select by drawing lots for. Peasants... who will not be balloted for soldiers. Carlyle, French Rev., III. i. 1. a bale: see bale3 and