lob

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc: lob a beach ball; lob a tennis shot over an opponent's head.
2. v. To hit a ball in a high arc.
3. v. To move heavily or clumsily.
4. n. A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.
5. n. Slang A clumsy dull person; a lout.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A dull, sluggish person; a lout.
2. n. The last person in a race.
3. n. Something thick and lumpish; a lump.
4. n. A thick, soft mixture. See the quotation, and compare loblolly.
5. n. A lobworm.
6. n. The pollack.
7. n. The coalfish.
8. n. [⟨ lob, verb] In cricket, a low slow ball.
9. n. In lawn-tennis, a play by which one of the contestants knocks the ball over the head of his opponent into the back part of the court.
10. n. Lob Lie-by-the-fire—the Lubber-flend, as Milton calls him—is a rough kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to haunt some north-country homesteads, where he does the work of the farm-labourers, for no grander wages than “—to earn his cream-bowl duly set.”
11. To throw (a lump or ball, etc.); toss gently or with a slow movement; specifically, in lawn-tennis, to strike (the ball) over the head of one's opponent into the back part of the court.
12. To kick.
13. To be tossed with a slow movement, as a cricket-ball or a shot.
14. To hang down; drop or droop.
15. To hang wearily or languidly; allow to drop or droop.
16. In milling, to break (ore, etc.) into pieces with a hammer for sorting.

Wiktionary

1. n. a lump
2. n. obsolete a country bumpkin, clown
3. n. A fish, the European pollock.
4. v. To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
5. v. colloquial To throw.
6. v. colloquial To put, place
7. v. sports To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
8. n. A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A dull, heavy person.
2. n. Something thick and heavy.
3. v. To let fall heavily or lazily.
4. v. to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory.
5. v. (Mining) See cob, v. t.
6. n. (Zoöl.) The European pollock.
7. n. The act of lobbing an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
2. n. the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
3. v. propel in a high arc