English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Ballad
(v. i.)
To make or sing ballads.
Ballad
(v. t.)
To make mention of in ballads.
A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster.
Ballade
(n.)
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in
English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of
eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the
whole poem with an envoy.
Ballader
(n.)
A writer of ballads.
Balladry
(n.)
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.
Ballahoo
(n.)
Alt. of Ballahou
Ballahou
(n.)
A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West
Indies.
Ballarag
(v. i.)
To bully; to threaten.
Ballast
(a.)
The larger solids, as broken stone or gravel, used in
making concrete.
Ballast
(v. t.)
To keep steady; to steady, morally.
Ballast
(v. t.)
To fill in, as the bed of a railroad, with gravel,
stone, etc., in order to make it firm and solid.
Ballast
(v. t.)
To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in
the hold.
Ballast
(a.)
Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness,
steadiness, and security.
Ballast
(a.)
Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad
to make it firm and solid.
Ballast
(a.)
Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the
hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent
capsizing.
Ballast
(a.)
Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it
steadiness.
Ballastage
(n.)
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a
port or harbor.
Ballasted
(imp. & p. p.)
of Ballast
Ballasting
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ballast