ballad

t. & i. [From Eng. ballad, s. (q.v.).] A. Transitive : To a ail with or in ballads. (Followed by the objective of the person against whom the ballad is directed.) "Saucy lictors Will catch at us like strumpets, and scall'd rhimers Ballad us out o' tune. Shakesp. Ant. and Cleop., v. 2. B. Intransitive: To compose or sing ballads. "These envious libellers ballad against them." Donne Pur ., 1. băl-lade', s . [Fr.] A poem of one or more triplets of seven or eight lines, each with the same refrain. There is, or should e, an envoi.