balking (2), balkynge, bolking

& a. [BALK, v. (2).] As substantive: Eructation. "It is a balkynge of yesterdayes meel." Horman: Vulg ., Sig. G. 8. (S. in Boucher .) bâlk-ing-lỹ, adv . [Eng. balking ; -ly.] In a manner to balk, so as to frustrate or disappoint. ( Webster .) bâll (1), s . [In Sw. boll , bal ; Dan. bold ; Dut. bal ; Ger. ball; O. H. Ger. ball a , palla ; Fr. balle , boulet , boule , bille ; Prov. & Sp. bola = a ball; ball a = bullet; Port. bal a ; Ital. palla = a ball, bowl, bullet; Lat. pila a ball.] [BALLOON, BALLOT, BOWL, BULLET, PILL.) A. Ordinary Language: I. Anything in art or nature which is globular or nearly so. 1. Of things made by art: (a) A globular body for play. It may be formed of leather and stuffing, or any hard substance, or be inflated with air, and can be used with the hand, the foot, or a racket. "Those I have seen play at ball grow extremely earnest who should have the ball . "- Sidney . (b) A globular body of wood, ivory, or other substance, used for voting by ballot or in any other way. Also one of a similar character for experiments in natural philosophy. "Let lots decide it. For every number'd captive put a ball Into an urn, three only black be there, The rest all white are safe."-Dryden. "Minos, the strict inquisitor, appears; Round in his urn the blended balls he rowls, Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls." Dryden: Virgil ; Aneid ví, 582-85. (c) A bullet, a globular piece of metal designed as a projectile to be expelled from a musket or rifle. Also one on a larger scale to be ejected from a cannon. (Often used in the singular as a noun of multitude to signify a large number of balls.) "Their powder and ball were spent. Cries were heard of 'A in munition! for God's sake, ammunition!"" -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. v. (d) A globe of metal carried as a symbol of sovereign or other high authority. "Hear the tragedy of a young man that by right ought to hold the ball of a kingdom; but by fortune is made himself a ball , to ed from misery to misery. from place to place."- Bacon . 2. Of objects existing in Nature : (a) Gen.: Anything in nature which is globular or nearly so. "Like a ball of snow tumbling down a hill, he gathered strength as he pa ed."- Howel . (b) Spec.: The earth when viewed with reference to its nearly spherical shape. It may have some explanatory adjective, such as "earthly" prefixed, or may have no such adjective. "No compound of this earthly ball Is like another, all in all." Tennyson: The Two Voices. "Ye gods, what justice rules the ball ! Freedom and arts together fall." Pope . II. A game in which the globular body described under I. 1. (a), or anything similar, is used. B. Technically : I. Heraldry . Balls, occasionally ta elled, are represented on some charges. II. Mechanics: 1. Ball and socket : An instrument so adjusted that it can move in all directions, horizontally, vertically, and obliquely, like the ball-and-socket joint of the shoulders or of the hip. It is used in trigonometrical surveying and in astronomy. The theodolite approaches this construction. 2. The ball of a pendulum: The heavy piece of metal at the bottom of a pendulum. The name is not appropriate, for the "ball," instead of being globular, is much compre ed on two opposite sides. (Bов.] III. Veterinary Science: A bolus of globular shape administered as medicine to a horse. IV. Pyrotechnics: A firework made in a globular form, and consisting of combustible materials of various kinds. * V. Printing : A cushion covered with leather or skin, and stuffed with hair or wool, the whole affixed to a hollow piece of wood called a ball - stock . It was formerly used by printers for applying ink to the types, several applications of the ball being nece ary to spread the ink over the entire surface when a number of pages were printed at one time; but now this is done much more rapidly and efficiently by means of rollers made of a composition of treacle, caoutchouc, and other ingredients. IMG:content-1016.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1017.png:[blocks in formation] Printing: The "stock" to which the cushion was affixed in the old apparatus for applying ink to the types. [BALL, B., V.] (Now superseded by composition rollers.)