1. To form into balls, as snow on horses' hoofs, in travelling. Ball and socket, an instrument made usually of brass, with a universal screw, so as to move horizontally, vertically, and obliquely, used in managing surveying and astronomical instruments. Ball and socket joint, a particular kind of joint, one part of which is shaped like a ball, and the other, in which it moves, is a hollow socket of the same diameter.

2. To form into a ball.

3. An entertainment of dancing.

4. Anything round or roundish; a bullet; the globe; a game with a ball.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• baral,
• fiball,
• bal,
• barell,
• bpoll,
• billd,
• baly,
• billl,
• biill,
• abell,
• billi,
• wwall,
• balll,
• badel,
• braul,
• halll,
• walll,
• batlle,
• balb,
• bille

• bulawayo,
• sky-blue,
• bel,
• belle,
• belie,
• pauli,
• payola,
• bill,
• bligh,
• bola,
• pull,
• t-bill,
• bell,
• paella,
• buhl,
• pile,
• pally,
• pole,
• billy-ho,
• poilu,
• bali,
• bully,
• polo,
• bowl,
• blow,
• blow-dry,
• boulle,
• bail,
• blowy,
• blighia,
• pail,
• ballew,
• pelew,
• billy,
• plier,
• boll,
• billyoh,
• paisley,
• peal,
• bailey,
• Baily,
• pplo,
• ply,
• pel,
• Balliew,
• bylaw,
• four-ply,
• bawl,
• blah,
• poll,
• bile,
• balay,
• polio,
• PLI/PPLI,
• pilaw,
• bialy,
• pal,
• ploy,
• bally,
• plow,
• peel,
• balli,
• boyle,
• bolo,
• Bailie,
• Bayly,
• belay,
• boil,
• pool,
• Ballow,
• billyo,
• belly,
• pilau,
• bale,
• palau,
• bole,
• pill,
• pale,
• billowy,
• pula,
• blue,
• bulla,
• pall,
• Beall,
• belau,
• bleu,
• billow,
• Baillie,
• pul,
• bellow,
• pule,
• powell,
• bahl,
• baal,
• pawl,
• bailee,
• boule,
• Baley,
• leg-pull,
• pellaea,
• boole,
• BALLE,
• bowel,
• pulley,
• by-blow,
• play,
• Bala,
• bull,
• bewail,
• plea,
• paul,
• pilea,
• balla,
• pillow,
• ballou,
• BAL,
• blae,
• pol,
• Bayley,
• below.

The adjective form of the word "ball" is "ball-like".

The plural of the "ball" can be the "balls".

The singular of the "ball" can be the "ball".