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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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[Obs.]

Milton.

Noun.

A song; a jig.

ballatry

Obsolete form of balladry.
- Milton, Areopagitica
  If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. […] The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler […]