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bal

1 American  
[bal] / bæl /

noun

  1. Balmoral.


BAL 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Chemistry. British Anti-Lewisite: dimercaprol.

  2. Computers. Basic Assembly Language.


bal. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. balance.

  2. balancing.


Bal. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. Baluchistan.


BAL British  

abbreviation

  1. British anti-lewisite See dimercaprol

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Drawing from the region’s deep vein of Celtic mythology, Jenkin summons the ghosts of lost fishermen and long-gone female mine workers, known as bal maidens, stoking an atmosphere thick with ancient anguish.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Mad honey, or deli bal in Turkish, is a type of rhododendron honey.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2022

And then Martinez, who possessed perhaps the most devastating changeups in baseball history, offset is fingers to get the middle and ring fingers on top of the bal.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2021

Stories that catalogue the delights and the dangers of deli bal, or Turkish “mad honey”, crop up throughout history.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2020

The dancing-club was a bal musette in the Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The academy has bigs in the BAL, too.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

Snyder made no effort to hide how much he was enjoying the two-day gig, which he took on because of his 20-year friendship with BAL President Amadou Gallo Fall.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

The NBA thinks that interest in the BAL can help change that.

From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 8, 2022

The BAL reports that currently over 50 NBA players were born in Africa or have a parent from Africa.

From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 8, 2022

The name AL represented his remoteness above men, his inaccessibility; BAL and BALA, his might; ALOHIM, his various potencies; IHUH, existence and the generation of things.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

On July 21 is an entry “Milo Lucas bal. of Building Contract $1605.25.”

From The Auburndale Watch Company First American Attempt Toward the Dollar Watch by Edwin A. Battison

In 1791 John Potts was paid four pounds and four shillings "in part for 20 Lottery tickets in the Alexa. street Lottery at 6/ each, 14 Dollrs. the Bal. was discharged by 2.3 Lotr prizes."

From The True George Washington [10th Ed.] by Paul Leicester Ford

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