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A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.

te players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

ternal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.

uck (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). It belongs the subclass Monotremata and is remarkable for laying eggs like a bird or reptile; -- called also duckbill, platypus, mallangong, mullingong, tambreet, and water mole. -- To make ducks and drakes, to throw a flat stone obliquely, so as to make it rebound repeatedly from the s…

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.

To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.

ients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.

as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.

unger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first. Hoyle.

k. Their eldest historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in am emphatic manner; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning.

as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.

A game with playing cards in which the cards are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner.

An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] Chapman.

The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.

The act of playing as a fielder.