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Assault
noun · 78% connection
An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Attempt
verb · 78% connection
To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bol…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Barleycorn
noun · 78% connection
A grain or "corn" of barley.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Beer
noun · 78% connection
A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter fla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Bere
noun · 78% connection
Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Bowl
noun · 78% connection
An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Camp
noun · 78% connection
An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Caryopsis
noun · 78% connection
A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Cat
noun · 78% connection
An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Checkers
verb · 78% connection
A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved di…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Corn
noun · 78% connection
A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Couch
verb · 78% connection
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Demurrer
noun · 78% connection
A stop or pause by a party to an action, for the judgment of the court on the question, whether, assuming the truth of the matter alle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Doddart
noun · 78% connection
A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Domino
noun · 78% connection
A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Engrain
verb · 78% connection
To color in imitation of the grain of wood; to grain. See Grain, v. t., 1.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Firlot
noun · 78% connection
A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
Hordeolum
noun · 78% connection
A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, rural, game, commonly, played.
