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A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]

A zinc-carbon cell in which the zinc (amalgamated) is surrounded by dilute sulphuric acid, and the carbon by nitric acid or a chromic acid mixture, the two plates being separated by a porous cup.

by pouring over them a quantity of the same metal in a liquid state. -- To burn a bowl (Game of Bowls), to displace it accidentally, the bowl so displaced being said to be burned. -- To burn daylight, to light candles before it is dark; to waste time; to perform superfluous actions. Shak. -- To burn one's fingers,…

To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game. [Cant] Johnson.

In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.

A pole or beam used in Scottish games for tossing as a trial of strength.

A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.

See Gamboge.

See Gambrel, n., 2. Wright.

An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England. Halliwell. Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation. -- camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope…

A game of football. [Prov. Eng.]

The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

Of or pertaining to the Capitol in Rome. "Capitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth…

A winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet. It counts for forty points. Hoyle.

A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.

r pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

epared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. Thackeray.

A strolling gamester. [Ireland] Spenser.

A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.