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A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests.

urnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.

roundings, and for their radiations, which are of three kinds: alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays (see these terms). By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium pr…

A game of dice in which he who threw three alike won all the stakes. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. The other zealous rag is the compositor. B. Jonson. Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag. Spenser.

rpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury. [Colloq. U. S.]

æ, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds.

(Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.

A dog that beats the ground in search of game.

Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game. [Colloq.]

A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.

A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when they have lost track of the game.

To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.

An American duck (Aythya Americana) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also red-headed duck. American poachard, grayback, and fall duck. See Illust. under Poachard.

A drawn game; specif. (Trente et quarante),

Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.

at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continnue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way. (c) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.

A set or game at tennis. [Obs.]

One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.

To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.