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e and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty- five cents.

to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

A literary or scientific association or club.

ventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.

more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with no trump, 10.

A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used.

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

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak.

The ace of clubs in qua Pope.

A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

The fool's club. [Obs.] "A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.

A club; esp., a policeman's club.

r exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray.

A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword. Well struck ! there was blow for blow. Shak.

A club. [Obs.] Spenser.

of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. -- To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. -- To play one's cards well, to make no erro…

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat. Massinger.

g measures of party policy; a political primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].

The head cook of large establishment, as a club, a family, etc.