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A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

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

to ridicule a person behind his back. -- Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), players stationed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's back, to be helpless. -- To put, or get, one's back up, to assume an attitude of obstinate resistance (from the action of a cat when attacked.). [Colloq.]…

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made i…

outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.

In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

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

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.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

m to both sides. See Puppet valve. -- Hydrostatic balance. See under Hydrostatic. -- To lay in balance, to put up as a pledge or security. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To strike a balance, to find out the difference between the debit and credit sides of an account.

laced 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 spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

A game played with a large inf [Obs.]

A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.

ad and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.