balle

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• bolColji, nga (E.), ball, esp. a foothall.; loljr (MIbum), a rope suspen- sion bridge.
• bugalo give a white gown a faint blue tint; n. buge; (i) buge charke, so achieved by wearing a blue one over a while one; (il) buge pidde, by sprinkling indigo powder over it; (ili) Uuge gosle, by rubbing an indigo ball on it.
• battaleave a mark; balle, ballifi, mark, sign; tace; balltina, leave, or make a mark or im- pression; to influence; bollidinke, influence.; ballum, be lacking in stamina; lethargic; balto battabe, one so lacking; puchu battu, a horse wilhout stamina.
• kolloRollije (Il.), ball; kollo-gullet; kondondol ndivem, wind-puchi, polo. pipe; kondondol nyamndlu, and
• morlaroll or rub in the hands; to gather, or puil, up a gown; morlere, morle, a ball of anything rolled in the hands; calyx.
• balawalballe, shoulder; shoul-balawah, balbe, shoulder; shoul- der blade of animals; syn. walhoder blade of animals; syn. zallo (Sen.). bale, bulejt, inconsiderate or con- templuous treatment: o radi
• chobbalchoble, "fura', a food, being meal cooked and made into balls for mixing in milk, &c.; it is eaten (drunk) cold.
• gulguligulgulije, a food of guineacorn meal; gulgulire, a ball of it. guluru, guliji, a kind of lute, esp. as used by the *Mar- gis gulumbur, Icaves of the baobab tree.
• mandawaria ball of a kind of black earth, usedl for polishingblack earth, used for polisbing walls.
• hardumberekardumbejt, the ball at the end of a distaff.