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.

Of or pertaining to a bath.

A bathing room.

The act of bathing.

Belonging to a bath.

A description of baths.

A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.

The treatment of disease by baths.

nonsense; foolishness; bunk; -- also used as an interjection.

See Projector, below.

See Ballotade.

A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.

The act of imparting balsamic properties.

Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling, balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.

Producing balsam.

a natural family comprising the balsams, distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers.

The Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.

genus of coarse West American herbs with large roots containing an aromatic balsam.

Having the quality of balsam; containing balsam.

a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having white-downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots.

To stick together.

Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.

A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.

Having balusters.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, or the eaves of a building, or as a guard railing on a staircase; -- it serves as a guard to prevent people from falling.

Honore de Balzac, a French novelist; b. 1799, d. 1850.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Honore Balzac.

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.

To cheat; to wheedle.

The capital city of Mali. Population (2000) = 746,000.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.

To flog with the bamboo.

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.

A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.

A tribe of plants comprising the bamboos.

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

The territory governed by a ban.

An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.

A bank, especially that of Venice.

imp. of Bind.

An adhesive bandage, composed of a short ribbon of cloth or plastic with an adhesive coating on one side, and having a patch of gauze at the center. It is used to cover small cuts, abrasions, or blisters on the skin, and may be easily applied to and removed from the skin with no additional material. Originally a trademark, the term has been popularly used generically.

To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form; -- it is often used as a neckerchief. The term is also used for any large and brightly colored handkerchief.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc.

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring, and usually at the top of the column; an annulet.

One banded with others.

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting.

A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.

An outlaw; a brigand.

An Irish measure of two feet in length.

The leader of a dance band.

Same as Bandelet.

The conductor of a musical band.

A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

A glutinous pomatum for the hair.

Disposal; control; license.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. It is now obsolete, but see bandura.

Same as Banderole.

A little banner, flag, or streamer.

A traditional Ukrainian stringed musical instrument shaped like a lute, having many strings.

A popular trend that attracts growing support.

The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.

To be the bane of; to ruin.

A genus (Act/a) of plants, of the order Ranunculace/, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

Deadly nightshade.

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; -- usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes.

Huge; great in size.

The capital city of Thailand. Population (2000) = 5,882,000.

An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan).

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh.

An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links.

a horse bred for racing.

See Bhang.

The capital city of Central African Republic. Population (2000) = 706,000.

A Hindu trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

One who banishes.

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

A baluster.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and a circular body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

The capital city of Gambia. Population (2000) = 44,188,.

To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an a/rocurve, or the like.

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

Depend on; be confident of.

See under 1st Bank, n.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.