noun.
The indigestible part of the food of hawks and owls, consisting of bones, hair, feathers, etc., which is cast up or regurgitated in the shape of elongated balls.
To form into pellets or little balls.
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A little ball, as of wax, dough, paper, lead (a shot), etc.: as, homeopathic pellets.
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A stone ball formerly used as a missile, particularly from a sling; also, a cannon-ball; a bullet.
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In heraldry, a roundel sable: same as ogress.
noun.
In numismatics, a small pellet-shaped boss. T. Erans.
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In decorative art, a small rounded projection, usually one of many. Compare purl.