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Finger :: Finger (n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument..

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

Deck :: Deck (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.

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

Diamond :: Diamond (n.) One of a suit of playing cards, stamped with the figure of a diamond..

Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..

Fiddlestick :: Fiddlestick (n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow..

Tongue :: Tongue (v. t.) To modulate or modify with the tongue, as notes, in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..

Piping :: Piping (v.) Playing on a musical pipe.

Court :: Court (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court..

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..

Lyrism :: Lyrism (n.) The act of playing on a lyre or harp.

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.].

Knicker :: Knicker (n.) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing..

Treble :: Treble (a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice..

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

Jetton :: Jetton (n.) A metal counter used in playing cards.

Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.

Pack :: Pack (n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack..

Pan :: Pan (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented..

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