Word Meanings - CANDLEPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

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• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• STRAIGHT-JOINT
  Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STRAIGHT-OUT
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• STRAIGHTENER
  One who, or that which, straightens.
• CANDLE FOOT
  The illumination produced by a British standard candle at a distance of one foot; --used as a unit of illumination.
• STRAIGHT-PIGHT
  Straight in form or upright in position; erect. Shak.
• STRAIGHTWAY
  Immediately; without loss of time; without delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• STRAIGHT-LINED
  Having straight lines.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.
• STRAIGHTLY
  In a right line; not crookedly.
• CANDLEPIN
  A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle. The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.
• PLAYTHING
  A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• WORDPLAY
  A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.