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A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

ken together. -- Coat card, a card bearing a coated figure; the king, queen, or knave of playing cards. "`I am a coat card indeed.' `Then thou must needs be a knave, for thou art neither king nor queen.'" Rowley. -- Coat link, a pair of buttons or studs joined by a link, to hold together the lappels of a double-breas…

The bone used in playing the game; -- called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

n for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

il; to wind; -- often with about or around. You can see his flery serpents . . . Coiting, playing in the water. Longfellow.

A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning. The foxe, maister of collusion. Spenser. That they [miracles] be done publicly, in the face of the world, that there may be no room to suspect artifice and collusion. Atterbury. By the ig…

The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony. Humboldt.

A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. Christian court, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. -- Court breeding, education acquired at court. -- Court card. Same as Coat card. -- Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news r…

Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner.

A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. Milton. The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.

nedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw. The loud daw, his throat displaying, draw The whole assembly of his fellow daws. Waller.

A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. Shak.

Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.

One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond.

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.

spicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade. Proudly displaying the insignia of their order. Prescott.

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

ute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.