BAL'LET, n.
1. A kind of dance; an interlude; a comic dance, consisting of a series of several airs, with different movements, representing some subject or action.
2. A kind of dramatic poem, representing some fabulous action or subject, in which several persons appear and recite things, under the name of some deity or personage.
In heraldry, ballets or balls, a bearing in coats of arms, denominated according to their color, bezants, plates, hurts, _c.
