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ken together. -- Coat card, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen, or knave of playing cards. "`I am a coat card indeed.' `Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breas…

A game played by children with nuts.

A game played with sheep's bones instead of dice [Obs.]

A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

n for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

il; to wind; -- often with about or around. You can see his flery serpents . . . Coiting, playing in the water. Longfellow.

two breeds, the rough-haired and smooth-haired. It is remarkable for its intelligence, displayed especially in caring for flocks. [Written also colly, colley.]

To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert. If they let things take their course, they will be represented as colluding with sedition. Burke.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ig…

hat issues into it. [Written also coombe.] Buckland. A gradual rise the shelving combe Displayed. Southey.

In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played. Combining weight (Chem.), that proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element fixed and exact, by which an element unites with another to form a…

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

A women who plays in comedy.

s of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy. With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay. Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.

from tragedy. I can not for the stage a drama lay, Tragic or comic, but thou writ'st the play. B. Jonson.

n; to disturb; to unsettle. [R.] Straight the sands, Commoved around, in gathering eddies play. Thomson.

The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play. To keep company with. See under Keep, v. t.

or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.

A game for two, played with 40 cards, in which each player tries to form three or four of a kind or sequences.

To estamate; to think; to regard; to view. Considered as plays, his works are absurd. Macaulay.