Ball

1. n. The globe or earth.
2. n. Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.
3. n. A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.
4. n. A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.
5. n. Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifle ball; — often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.
6. n. A flaming, roundish body shot into the air; a case filled with combustibles intended to burst and give light or set fire, or to produce smoke or stench; as, a fire ball; a stink ball.
7. n. A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; — formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.
8. n. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.
9. n. A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.