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A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]

An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats. "As fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit." Locke.

oss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits. Pitch and toss, a game played by tossing up a coin, and calling "Heads or tails;" hence: To play pitch and toss with (anything), to be careless or trust to luck about it. "To play pitch and toss with the property of the country." G. Eliot. -- Pitc…

To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.

One who plays any game.

Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play"ful*ly, adv. -- Play"ful*ness, n.

aradridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds.

f land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.] Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. Tale of Gamelyn.

Pertaining to natural order (Plumbagineæ) of gamopetalous herbs, of which plumbago is the type. The order includes also the marsh rosemary, the thrift, and a few other genera.

To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. Garth.

One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

A game played with five dice in which the count is usually made, in order, by pairs, two pairs, three of a kind, full houses, four of a kind, and five of a kind (the highest throw), similar to poker; also, the dice used in this game, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual d…

A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.

A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy. Interest policy, a policy that shows by its form that the assured has a real, substantial interest in the matter insured. -- Open policy, one in which the value of the goods or property insured is not mentioned. -- Poli…

ar.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. -- Poll pick (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. -- Poll tax, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax.

A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.

g with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra).