Basset: alternatives and connections

An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice,…

A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.

A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, a…

An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is…

A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or com…

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a dea…

To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).

A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from…

a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to…

The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who…

A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter'…