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1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. 2. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of

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1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. 2. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of the ballot. Dickens. 3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

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  • CHANCELLERY
    Chancellorship. Gower.
  • HAZARDIZE
    A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
  • BALLOTER
    One who votes by ballot.
  • CHANCEFUL
    Hazardous. Spenser.
  • FORTUNELESS
    Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
  • CHANCE
    Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
  • CHANCELLORSHIP
    The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
  • CHANCEL
    lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
  • BALLOTATION
    Voting by ballot. Sir H. Wotton.
  • CHANCEABLY
    By chance.
  • CHANCERY
    1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
  • BALLOTIN
    An officer who has charge of a ballot box. Harrington.
  • BALLOTADE
    A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
  • HAZARDRY
    1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. Chaucer. 2. Rashness; temerity. Spenser.
  • HAZARDER
    1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. Chaucer. 2. One who hazards or ventures.
  • BALLOTAGE
    In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.
  • BALLOT
    1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. 2. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of
  • HAZARDOUS
    Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton. Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
  • HAZARD
    Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. --
  • CHANCELLOR
    A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. Note: The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • ARCHCHANCELLOR
    A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
  • PERCHANCE
    By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • MISCHANCE
    Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
  • BECHANCE
    By chance; by accident. Grafton.
  • BEFORTUNE
    To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
  • AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
    A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed

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