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Bandy :: Bandy (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy..

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Double :: Double (v. i.) To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false.

Boston :: Boston (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war..

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side..

In-and-in :: In-and-in (n.) An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike..

Dump :: Dump (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing..

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

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..

Golfer :: Golfer (n.) One who plays golf.

Coxcomb :: Coxcomb (n.) A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop..

Splay :: Splay (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders..

Game :: Game (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble..

Sensational :: Sensational (a.) Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report..

Credit :: Credit (n.) Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile reputation entitling one to be trusted; -- applied to individuals, corporations, communities, or nations; as, to buy goods on credit..

Protest :: Protest (v. t.) To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty..

Exhibit :: Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery..

Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting..

Play :: Play (v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ..

Jackstone :: Jackstone (n.) A game played with five small stones or pieces of metal. See 6th Chuck.

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