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See Piquet.

the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]

A small plaque, esp., in modern medal engraving, a small and delicate bas-relief, whether cast or struck from a die, or of form other than circular.

See Racket.

To hit, as another's ball, with one's own ball.

e; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname. [Sometimes less correctly written soubriquet.]

See Sobriquet.

descent reflections. Called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. The spotted squeteague (C. nebulosus) of the Southern United States is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. It is called also spotted weakfish, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon.

See Toque, 1.

An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

Triquetrous.

Three sided, the sides being plane or concave; having three salient angles or edges; trigonal.

One of the bones of the carpus; the cuneiform. See Cuneiform (b).

tuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail. [Spelled also hacqueton.] [Obs.] Halliwell. Sir W. Scott.

genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet- scented flowers.

A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.

to have been invented at Venice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

Good cheer; viands. [Obs.] "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.

er of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

The State of Delaware; -- a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of…