Word Meanings - FIVES - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to FIVES)
- COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - 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 - THREE-SQUARE
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - COUNTERFLEURY
Counterflory. - COUNTERVIEW
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. - NAMELESSLY
In a nameless manner. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - COUNTERJUMPER
A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously. - NAMABLE
Capable of being named. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - COUNTERPLEAD
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny. - COUNTER BRACE
The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
See A - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - DYNAMO
A dynamo-electric machine. - DYNAMOMETRY
The art or process of measuring forces doing work. - ENCOUNTERER
One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant.