Word Meanings - RUFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Playing) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Nares. The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.

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• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• TRUMPET
  A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• TRUMPIE
  The Richardson's skua .
• TRUMP
  1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits. 2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff. Decker. 3. A good fellow; an
• PREDECESSOR
  One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the interests of the
• NARES
  The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• WHISTLER
  The hoary, or northern, marmot . (more info) 1. One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound. The ring ousel. The widgeon. The golden-eye. The golden plover and the gray plover.
• 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.
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• TRUMPLIKE
  Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice. Chapman.
• WHIST
  A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when
• TRUMPET-SHAPED
  Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.
• PLAYGAME
  Play of children. Locke.
• WHISTLING
  a. & n. from Whistle, v. Whistling buoy. See under Buoy. -- Whistling coot , the American black scoter. -- Whistling Dick. An Australian shrike thrush . The song thrush. -- Whistling duck. The golden-eye. A tree duck. -- Whistling
• TRUMPETWOOD
  A tropical American tree of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.
• 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
• WHISTLE
  1. To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds. The weary plowman leaves
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• 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.
• SOLO WHIST
  A card game played with the full pack ranking as at whist, each player declaring for which of seven different points he proposes to play.
• PHOTOPLAY
  A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.