[f. BALL v.2 + -ING1.] Frequenting of balls, dancing.

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1634–46.  Row, Hist. Kirk (1842), 172. She … is to be admonished for night-waking, balling, &c.

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1676.  W. Row, Suppl. Blair’s Autobiog., x. (1848), 226. There was balling and dancing till near day.

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