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

To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

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

The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. Mason.

That besieges; laying siege to. -- Be*sie"ging*ly, adv.

fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

ogies." J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.] There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in the history of savages. C. Kingsley.

e; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

The act of building with or laying bricks.

ourse, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] --…

of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

(Card Playing) Whist played in an unscientific way.