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Hit :: Hit (v. t.) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; -- said of a single unprotected piece on a point..

Player :: Player (n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.

Cittern :: Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum..

Lap :: Lap (n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

Minstrelsy :: Minstrelsy (n.) The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

Put :: Put (v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Exciteful :: Exciteful (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players..

Prelude :: Prelude (v. t.) To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air..

Epilogue :: Epilogue (n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play..

Swordplayer :: Swordplay (n.) Fencing; a sword fight.

Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..

Deal :: Deal (n.) The process of dealing cards to the players; also, the portion disturbed..

Piquet :: Piquet (n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside..

Rigoll :: Rigoll (n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end..

Out :: Out (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.

Flapdragon :: Flapdragon (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing..

Double :: Double (n.) A game between two pairs of players; as, a first prize for doubles..

Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..

Pinocle :: Pinocle (n.) A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs..

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