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ith the open hand. Shak. His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. Macaulay. Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. -- Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n. -- Tennis c…

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

To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.

A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume. Tennison. The breath of flowers. Bacon.

A cicada. See Cicada. "At eve a dry cicala sung." Tennison.

A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court. Christian court, the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. -- Court breeding, education acquired at court. -- Court card. Same as Coat card. -- Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news r…

individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. [Slang]

See Creese. Tennison.

A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.

oe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert Tennison.

A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; - - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart. Fives court, a place for playing fives.

oom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen. Such a mood as that which lately gloomed Your fancy. Tennison. What sorrows gloomed that parting day. Goldsmith.

s bristles strong, And felly gnarre. Spenser. A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men. Tennison.

kept closely mown. Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns. -- Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.

l heavily or lazily. And their poor jades Lob down their heads. Shak. To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.

Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc. He won the match by three sets to love. The Field.

, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope.

Anything wrought or woven in meshes; as, a net for the hair; a mosquito net; a tennis net.