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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.

To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance. A true devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps. Shak.

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

Uniparous; laying a single egg.

A delaying tarrying; delay. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

igned 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.

1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground, any given line being produced by a variation in the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).…

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.

.The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering. [Obs.]

An instrument for marking or laying off the outlines of teeth of gear wheels.

s in optical experiments. -- Optical square, a surveyor's instrument with reflectors for laying off right angles.

l or sacerdotal functions; to introduce into the office of the Christian ministry, by the laying on of hands, or other forms; to set apart by the ceremony of ordination. Meletius was ordained by Arian bishops. Bp. Stillingfleet.

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

A laying out or expending.

To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.

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

The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

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.