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Gray. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A lively French and Italian dance.

A brisk, gay man. [Obs.] Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland.

Excessive gayety; merriment. [Obs.] The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne.

Gayety. [Obs.] Gayton.

A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman.

See Halyard.

A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.

A born beggar; a vagabond. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

A deceptive gesture of the pitcher, as if to deliver the ball. Balk line (Billiards), a line across a billiard table near one end, marking a limit within which the cue balls are 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…

posed of ground bone, mineral matters, etc., hardened by pressure, and used for making billiard balls, boxes, etc.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

A composition for billiard balls.

A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

the elastic edge of a billiard table.

An accidental and favorable stroke at billiards (called a scratch in the United States); hence, any accidental or unexpected advantage; as, he won by a fluke. [Cant, Eng.] A. Trollope.