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Skillful :: Skillful (a.) Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing..

King :: King (n.) A playing card having the picture of a king; as, the king of diamonds..

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

Collusion :: Collusion (n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.

Sideboard :: Sideboard (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

Wavy :: Wavy (a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames..

Knave :: Knave (n.) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

Lambent :: Lambent (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.

Tableman :: Tableman (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10..

Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..

Punt :: Punt (n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc..

#NAME? :: -ing () A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing..

Fielding :: Fielding (n.) The act of playing as a fielder.

Block :: Block (v. t.) A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc..

Anatomize :: Anatomize (v. t.) To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts..

Lead :: Lead (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead..

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Die :: Die (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice..

Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false..

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