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Cudgel :: Cudgel (n.) A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon..

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..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.

Trump :: Trump (v. i.) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

Twiddle :: Twiddle (v. i.) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles..

Clumps :: Clumps (n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two clumps or groups, the clump which guesses the word winning the game..

Pique :: Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one..

Scrape :: Scrape (v. i.) To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or like instrument.

Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..

Fife :: Fife (v. i.) To play on a fife.

Scene :: Scene (n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage..

Euchre :: Euchre (n.) A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and called right bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower..

Pushpin :: Pushpin (n.) A child's game played with pins.

Bill :: Bill (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill..

Jack :: Jack (n.) The knave of a suit of playing cards.

Spoilful :: Spoilfive (n.) A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled..

Taborer :: Taborer (n.) One who plays on the tabor.

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

Fiddler :: Fiddler (n.) One who plays on a fiddle or violin.

Protactic :: Protactic (a.) Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory..

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