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Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.

e, the air of which has two brisk and lively, yet dignified, strains in common time, each played twice over. [Written also gavotte.]

An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] Mede.

To make gestures; to gesticulate. The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. Holland.

A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden.

To play the giant. [R.] Sherwood.

A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

To play on gittern. Milton.

Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.

Swordplay; fencing; gladiatorial contest. Gayton.

A game at cards, once popular, played by three persons. [Obs.] Pepys. Evelyn.

iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

rious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.] -- To go it alone (Card Playing), to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner. -- To go it blind. (a) To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner. [Slang] (b) (Card Playing) To bet without having examined the cards. -- To go one's way, to…

also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts. Goal keeper, the player charged with the defense of the goal.

A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.

An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.

A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

One who plays golf. [Scot.]

A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted. The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. Goldsmith. A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. -- Fen goose. See un…

ntercourse. The Graces love to weave the rose. Moore. The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. Prior.