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ing, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. Prior.

A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.

in working with uranium and its compounds. They consist of a mixture of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mo…

A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin. [Obs.]

A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]

oth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloo…

A child's game. [Obs.]

sistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.

A game at cards; poker. [U.S.] Bartlett.

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

r some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.