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26 [bail, bäil]:, ;  bǫllr, ball,, a globe; lump.

ball$1$ [bal, bäᶅ],, 1) to roll together (in a lump); put in disorder; [bäᶅd] togedder, tangled; in disorder, ; balla, , to pack (roll) up. 2) to speak indistinctly, in a disjointed manner; ; balla,, to babble; chatter; tungan ballar (ballast), the tongue trips. $n$,

ball$e$ [bal, bäl],, 1) to strike against something so that it resounds; to carry out some work energetically; de lass stød [‘stood’] [bällın] de boots, the girl was cleaning the boots with all her might; ? 2) a) to throw; fling, to b. onyting at ane, to b. snawba’s [‘snowballs’]; b) to hit by throwing, to b. de geese, to throw e.g. clods of earth at the geese . [bal, bäl]. [bäl]. Also: to [bæl]. bella,, to hit; bella, to knock against something so that it bangs (B.H.).

balli [bali],, small cake of barley- or oat-meal, in the - or -b. = the last and smallest of the cakes (brøni) baked at one time. A form båli [bååli], a “mellins-b.”, a “tirl-b.”, is reported from , See further, , and $2$, (-). bǫllr, , a ball; globe; lump; ball, , inter alia bun; a sort of clumsy cake, ball,, inter alia a lump of meat.

balligrøt [bal··igrøt·, baᶅ··ıgrøt·], , pebbles (collect.), a heap of pebbles. Now hardly used except as a place-name, “de o’ ”, beach at Stavanes, of the “balli-” see, , and $2$. The second part is, stone (heap of stones, variety of stone).. ballisten$2$ [bal··isten·],, a small, round stone, pebble. : *ball (or ballar)-steinn, from bǫllr,, a globe; lump. (b. ) and ,
 * *ball(a)grjót. For the first part

ballisten$1$ [bal··isten·],, a stone on the hearth in front of the fire, stone on which the ballis (cakes, see balli, ) are placed while being baked.

balti [ba‘lti],, struggle; exertion; pains and trouble; to ha’e [‘have’] a b. or  From the root “bal-”; bal,, inter alia trouble;, and  bala, vb., to fight one’s way; exert oneself, baldrask,, to work one’s way with exertion (from a substantive “baldr”).

bambirr [bam·bır(r)·] and more bambirl, -birrel [bam·bır·əl], , great haste; excitement, in a b., hurry-skurry; with intense emotion. *bangbyrr and *-byrl. bang,, noise; uproar, and bang, start; springing away; speed. byr,, (fair wind) propulsion; speed, and byrja,, to start energetically (R.). In, “birl” signifies partly a drilling or whirring sound, partly quick motion. , [*byrr],, which in is used uncompounded in the same sense as ; and the and -.
 * byrl, of “byrr”,, fair wind;

bambus [bam·bus·, -bos·],, hurry-skurry, to come in a b. No. busa, to rush blindly on. — [bam·bos·əl (-bus·əl)], , confused state; great disorder, on account of too great haste; in a b., pell-mell, (of mental state) confused; amazed., — Seems to be a  of ,  (see above), but  arises rather from “bamboozle”, ; “boozle” has
 * bang-bus. For “bang” see above
 * bus is allied to buse,