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Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.

The science which treats of the ligaments. [R.]

A condition of the score beginning whendeuce, which decides the game.

An old game or sport (revived under this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

A child's game, played with dib bones.

A pebble used in a child's game called dibstones. Locke.

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.

A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester. As false as dicers' oaths. Shak.

Gambling with dice. J. R. Green.

A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries.

rva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite.

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched h…

A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles.

Cinch (the game).

A game somewhat like backgammon. Halliwell.

A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.