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A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

A certain game at cards.

fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege. Hoyle.

A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

The smooth and level extent of ice marked off for the game of curling.

A game in which a ball, rolling into a certain place, wins. [Written also rouly-pouly.]

red. [R.] Rouge et noir ( Etym: [F., red and black], a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; -- so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited. Hoyle.

A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.

anced by couples with a whirling or revolving motion, as the waltz, polka, etc. -- Round game, a game, as of cards, in which each plays on his own account. -- Round hand, a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; -- distinguished from running ha…

An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football. Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base. Bagehot.

Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. Shak.

In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.

A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Nares.

A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.

to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic formina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and hip bone.

A ragout or partky roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

o) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid\'91.

y, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.