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The practice or habit of frequenting. [R.] Southey.

In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.

Unpracticed. [Obs.] Shak.

ention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue.

The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. Talk the game o'er between the deal. Lloyd.

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; to practice horticulture.

The art or practice of measuring gases; also, the science which treats of the nature and properties of these elastic fluids. Coxe.

One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy.

The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.

The art or practice of a gladiator.

To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.

The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians. [R.]

The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books.

To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself. Chaucer. The swain replied, "It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise." Pope.…

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud. [R.] "A mere gullery." Selden.

To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.