type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales.

type genus of the Balaenicipitidae: shoebills.

a family comprising the shoebills.

a family comprising the right whales.

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

the type genus of the Balaenopteridae.

rorquals; blue whales.

a stringed instrument of Russian origin that has a triangular body and three strings.

To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.

Such as can be balanced.

being in a state of proper balance or equilibrium; -- opposite of unbalanced.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

One who balances, or uses a balance.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

Bearing or producing acorns.

A fossil balanoid shell.

A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).

The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.

To stammer.

The defect of stammering; also, a kind of incomplete pronunciation.

A balcony.

Having balconies.

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.

Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.

Having a bald head; lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; -- alsp called bald and bald-pated; as, a bald-headed gentleman.

A rich brocade; baudekin.

The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.

To mix or adulterate, as liquors.

A person whose head is bald.

Nakedly; without reserve; inelegantly.

The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

A baldheaded person.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat.

A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; it is used to support a sword or bugle by the left hip; less properly, any belt.

A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

a person who has a bald head; -- a deprecatory term.

Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.

Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.

Plates or blades of /whalebone,/ from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Bal/noidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

A signal fire; an alarm fire.

Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

In a baleful manner; perniciously.

The quality or state of being baleful.

A badgerlike animal of India (Arctonyx collaris).

A crossbow.

a natural family comprising the triggerfishes.

Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistid/. See Filefish.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark.

To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.

to divide a territory into small, hostile states.

The countries occupying the Balkan Peninsula.

Same as baffled.

A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly.

Uneven; ridgy.

line across a billiard table behind which the cue balls are placed at the start of a game.

Apt to balk; as, a balky horse.

A social assembly for the purpose of dancing; -- usually applied to an occasion lavish or formal.

An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

skilled in stealing the ball or robbing a batter of a hit; -- used of a Baseball or basketball or football player.

shaped like a sphere.

To make mention of in ballads.

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.

A writer of ballads.

Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

To bully; to threaten.

To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.

A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

See Balladry.

formed or gathered into a ball.

A female ballet dancer.

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

a man who trains ballet dancers.

a woman who trains ballet dancers.

a heelless slipper specifically designed to be worn by ballet dancers while dancing.

of or pertaining to ballet{1}.

a ballet enthusiast.

An ancient military engine, in the form of a crossbow, used for hurling large missiles.

A crossbow.

Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.

A rocket-propelled missile of long range which is guided only during the powered portion of its flight, which usually takes only a small part of the total flight time; -- contrasted with guided missile.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

See Bailey.

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

Swelled out like a balloon.

One who goes up in a balloon; an a/ronaut.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them; the sport of riding in balloons.

An a/ronaut.

The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; an older term for ballooning.

To vote for or in opposition to.

A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.

In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates; a runoff election.

Voting by ballot.

One who votes by ballot.

An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

A cudgel.

an athlete who plays baseball.

a pen which has a small metal ball as point of transfer of ink to paper, at the tip of a cylandrical and non-refillable reservoir of ink; -- short for ballpoint pen.

Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms; bulletproof.

A room for balls or dancing.

nonsense.

something badly botched or muddled; a foul-up.

same as balls-up.

an informal intensifier.

noisy or blatant advertizing or publicity.

to be bossy towards; same as bullyrag.

To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. To soothe; to mitigate.

To render balmy.

In a balmy manner.

A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.

Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild; as, balmy weather.