Noun

(en noun)

A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.

* 1797-1798 , (Jane Austen), (Northanger Abbey)

It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball , riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.

The ball used to play the sport of baseball.

A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

Noun

A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.

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* 1897 , ,"

Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.

(obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.

* 1597 , , King John , act 4, sc. 3,

This is the bloodiest shame,

The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,

That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage

Presented to the tears of soft remorse .