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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 game played with a large inf [Obs.]

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

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

d 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.

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities. --Barn"storm`ing, n. [Theatrical Cant]

alled from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]

A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.

rk, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. Dryden.

A prayer. [Obs.]

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are direc…

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior.

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.