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In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.

The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.

Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. [R.] Coleridge.

The act of playing on a lyre or harp. G. Eliot.

A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand. Mace bearer, an officer who carries a mace before person in authority.

Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence. A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many. Massinger.

bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. -- To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. -- To make account. See under Account, n. -- To make account of, to esteem; to regard. -- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deform…

ving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

the march form. The drums presently striking up a march. Knolles. To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

A counter used in card playing and other games.

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

signed to, or that does, mystify. The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. De Quincey.

A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.

ue in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak.

d as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.

haped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.

One of the conventional figures or "spots" on playing cards, dominoes, etc. Addison.

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe. A robin . . . was piping a few querulous notes. W. Irving.