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A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

to ridicule a person behind his back. -- Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), players stationed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's back, to be helpless. -- To put, or get, one's back up, to assume an attitude of obstinate resistance (from the action of a cat when attacked.). [Colloq.…

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made i…

In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

placed in beginning a game; also, a line around the table, parallel to the sides, used in playing a particular game, called the balk line game.

A spherical body of any substance or size used to play with, as by throwing, knocking, kicking, etc.

A game played with a large inf [Obs.]

A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.

ead and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

ead and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. Bank credit, a credit by which a person who has give -- Bank of deposit, a bank which receives money for safe keeping. -- Bank of issue, a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.

With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced." Shak.