Billiards: alternatives and connections

Any small space, bounded by some part different in color or structure, as the spaces bounded by the nervures of the wings of insects,…

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fif…

A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the…

To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls; as, the horse balls; the snow balls.

The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded ac…

An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

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…

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king,…

One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.

The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See Ivory nut.

The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which ser…

A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester.

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…

A player or singer who prepares to take the part of another player in his absence; a substitute.

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…

A fault of a player of the side in the field which results in failure to put out a player on the other side, or gives him an unearned…

One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly togeth…