Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BALASS

BAL'ASSBAL'CONY, noun In architecture, a frame of wood, iron or stone, in front of a house or other building, supported by columns, pillars or consoles and encompassed with a ba...

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BALCONY

BAL'CONY, n. In architecture, a frame of wood, iron or stone, in front of a house or other building, supported by columns, pillars or consoles and encompassed with a balustrade....

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BALD

BALD, adjective bauld.1. Destitute of hair, especially on the top and back of the head.2. Destitute of the natural covering; as a bald oak.3. Without feathers on the head; as a ...

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BALDA-CHIN

BALD'A-CHIN,BALD'AQUIN, noun In architecture, a building in form of a canopy, supported by columns, and often used as a covering to insulated altars; sometimes used for a shell ...

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BALDAQUIN

BALD'AQUIN, n. In architecture, a building in form of a canopy, supported by columns, and often used as a covering to insulated altars; sometimes used for a shell over a door.17

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BALDERDASH

BALD'ERDASH, noun Mean, senseless prate; a jargon of words; ribaldry; anything jumbled together without judgment.BALD'ERDASH, verb transitive To mix or adulterate liquors.

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BALDLLY

BALDL'LY, adverb Nakedly; meanly; inelegantly; openly.

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BALDNESS

BALD'NESS, noun Want of hair on the top and back of the head; loss of hair; meanness or inelegance of writing; want of ornament.

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BALDPATE

BALD'PATE, noun A pate without hair.

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BALDPATED

BALD'PATED, adjective Destitute of hair; shorn of hair.

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BALDRICK

BALD'RICK, noun [Latin balleus, a belt, and rick, rich. See these words.]1. A girdle, or richly ornamented belt; a war girdle.A radiant baldrick o'er his shoulders tied.2. The z...

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BALE

BALE, noun [Heb. to bind, to pledge, and its derivative.]1. A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for carriage or transportation.2. Formerly, a pair of diceB...

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BALEARIC

BALEAR'IC, adjective [Gr. to throw, because the inhabitants were good slingers.]Pertaining to the isles of Majorca and Minorca, in the Mediterranean sea.

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BALEFUL

BA'LEFUL, adjective [See Bale.] Woeful; sad; sorrowful; full of grief; producing misery; as, a baleful smart; baleful eyes.2. Mischievous; destructive; pernicious; calamitous; d...

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BALEFULLY

BA'LEFULLY, adverb Sorrowfully; perniciously; in a calamitous manner.

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BALISTER

BALIS'TER, noun [Latin balista, from Gr.to throw.] A cross bow.

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BALIZE

BALIZE, noun A sea-mark; a pole raised on a bank.

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BALK

BALK, noun bauk.1. A ridge of land, left unplowed, between furrows, or at the end of a field.2. A great beam, or rafter.3. Any thing left untouched, like a ridge in plowing.4. A...

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BALKED

BALK'ED, participle passive Plowed in ridges between furrows, as in American husbandry.2. Frustrated; disappointed.

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BALKER

BALK'ER, noun One who balks. In fishery, balkers are persons who stand on rocks and eminences to espy the sholes of herring, and to give notice to the men in boats, which way th...

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BALKING

BALK'ING, participle present tense Plowing in ridges; frustrating.

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BALL

BALL, noun [Latin pila; A ball may signify a mass from collecting, or it may be that which is driven, from the root of Latin pello; probably the former.]1. A round body; a spher...

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BALLAD

BAL'LAD, noun A song; originally, a solemn song of praise; but now a meaner kind of popular song.BAL'LAD, verb intransitive To make or sing ballads.

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BALLAD-MAKER

BAL'LAD-MAKER, noun A maker or composer of ballads.

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BALLAD-MONGER

BAL'LAD-MONGER, noun [See Monger] A dealer in writing ballads.

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BALLAD-SINGER

BAL'LAD-SINGER, noun One whose employment is to sing ballads.

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BALLAD-STYLE

BAL'LAD-STYLE, noun The air or manner of a ballad.