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A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.

A drawn game or battle, etc. [Colloq.]

An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.

nd prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to for…

A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.

The scent of the game, as far as it can be traced. [Obs.] Shak.

To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. -- To dub out (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four- handed game of cards.

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).

A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

iate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. [Obs.] To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming. Sharp.

In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and…

Of or pertaining to horses or horsemen, or to horsemanship; as, equestrian feats, or games.

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.

The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area. Escutcheon of pretense, an escutcheon used in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement.

A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.…

ise arms; to exercise one's self in music; to exercise troops. About him exercised heroic games The unarmed youth. Milton.

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

rnea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.…