BALLADE
Bal*lade", n. Etym: [See Ballad, n.]
Defn: A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.
BALLADER
Bal"lad*er, n.
Defn: A writer of ballads.
BALLAD MONGER
Bal"lad mon`ger. Etym: [See Monger.]
Defn: A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.
BALLADRY
Bal"lad*ry, n. Etym: [From Ballad, n. ]
Defn: Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton.
BALLAHOO; BALLAHOU
Bal"la*hoo, Bal"la*hou, n.
Defn: A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.