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The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

iefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites. Milner.

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.

One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

The practice of engaging in athletic games; athletism.

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as f…

A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

p clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

Silver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury. [Sp. Amer.]

ammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"is…

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

The quantity of game bagged.

A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

table near one end, marking a limit within which the cue balls are placed in beginning a game; also, a line around the table, parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game, called the balk line game.

A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football.