BALE (S. bel), grief, misery, sorrow, trouble, cala BALE OF DICE, a pair of false dice. Sole regent over a bale of false dice. O. P. WHAT YOU WILL. For exercise of arms a bale of dice. B. JONSON'S NEW INN. BALK (S. balc), a great beam used in building, a rafter in a kitchen or out-house; a rack fixed to the rafter or balk, usually in old farm houses, holds the flitches of bacon used by the family. Many a piece of bacon have I had out of their balks. O. P. GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE. He can well in mine eye sene a stalke, CHAUCER'S MILLER'S TALE. BALLAD-MONGER, one who deals in ballad writing; but Shakspeare gives it in the sense of a writer or of ballads. composer I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 1 PART K. HEN. IV. BALLADRY, the stile or manner of ballads. What though the greedy fry Be taken with false baits Of worded balladry. B. JONSON. BALLARAG, a low but ludicrous term, in use only with the vulgar, signifying to bully or scold after the fashion of Billingsgate. On Minden's plains, ye meek mounseers, You surely thought to ballarag us With your fine squadron off Cape Lagos. WARTON. BALLIARDS (F. billard), now called billiards, a well known game of skill, by which certain coloured balls are driven by a stick, upon a smooth table, covered with green cloth, into net pockets, suspended from the table, at equal distances. With dice, with cards, with balliards, far unfit, SPENSER'S MOTHER HUBBARD'S TALE BALLOON (F. balon), a sport confined to the fields or other open space of ground. A large ball, cased with leather and filled with air, is impelled by the hand or foot from one person to another: it is a game rather for exercise than contention, and in this it differs from foot ball. The game is of French origin, and is still one of the daily amusements in the Champs Elyseès in Paris; it was well known and practised in England in the 14th century under the name of balloon ball, and is mentioned as one of the sports of Prince Henry, son of James I. in 1610. While others have been at the balloon, I have been at my books. PHIL. SATYRES.. Eus. All that is nothing, I can toss him thus. O, P. THE FOUR APPRENTICES OF LONDON.. BALOW, an interjectional phrase of the nursery, synonymous with hush, lullaby, &c. Balow, my babe, lie still and sleepe. LADY ANNE BOTHWELL'S LAMENT. BAN (G, bannen), to interdict by public proclamation, to curse; it has various other significations, but is chiefly used by old writers in the sense of to command, forbid, or excommunicate by authority. Ah! Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks; 2 PART K. HEN. VI. The sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence PAR. LOST. BANBURY. This town in Oxfordshire was formerly much inhabited by rigid puritans, whose chief employment was weaving. I'll send some forty thousand unto Paul's, O. P. THE ORDINARY. -She is more devout Than a weaver of Banbury. O. P. THE WITS. BAND (S. bond), the old method of spelling bond; an instrument or obligation to pay a debt. Tell me, was he arrested on a band? BAN-DOG, a species of mastiff, the etymology of which is uncertain, but is supposed to be so called from its being fastened up by a band on account of its ferocity. with the vulgar, signifying to bully or scold after the fashion of Billingsgate. On Minden's plains, ye meek mounseers, You surely thought to ballarag us With your fine squadron off Cape Lagos. WARTON. BALLIARDS (F. billard), now called billiards, a well known game of skill, by which certain coloured balls are driven by a stick, upon a smooth table, covered with green cloth, into net pockets, suspended from the table, at equal distances. With dice, with cards, with balliards, far unfit, SPENSER'S MOTHER HUBBArd's Tale. BALLOON (F. balon), a sport confined to the fields or other open space of ground. A large ball, cased with leather and filled with air, is impelled by the hand or foot from one person, to another; it is a game rather for exercise than contention, and in this it differs from foot ball. The game is of French origin, and is still one of the daily amusements in the Champs Elysees in Paris; it was well known and practised in England in the 14th century under the name of balloon ball, and is mentioned as one of the sports of Prince Henry, son of James I. in 1610. While others have been at the balloon, I have been at my books. PHIL. SATYRES.. Eus. All that is nothing, I can toss him thus. O. P. THE FOUR APPRENTICES OF LONDON. BALOW, an interjectional phrase of the nursery, synonymous with hush, lullaby, &c. Balow, my babe, lie still and sleepe. LADY ANNE BOTHWELL'S LAMENT. BAN (G, bannen), to interdict by public proclamation, to curse; it has various other significations, but is chiefly used by old writers in the sense of to command, forbid, or excommunicate by authority. Ah! Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks; 2 PART K. HEN. VI. The sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence PAR. LOST. BANBURY. This town in Oxfordshire was formerly much inhabited by rigid puritans, whose chief employment was weaving. I'll send some forty thousand unto Paul's, BAND (S. bond), the old method of spelling bond; an instrument or obligation to pay a debt. Tell me, was he arrested on a band?” BAN-DOG, a species of mastiff, the etymology of which is uncertain, but is supposed to be so called from its being fastened up by a band on account of its ferocity. |