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Castlebuilder :: Castlebuilder (n.) Fig.: one who builds castles in the air or forms visionary schemes.

Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..

Enchanted :: Enchanted (a.) Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle..

Castle :: Castle (v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king..

Hold :: Hold (n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

Echauguette :: Echauguette (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Cubbridge-head :: Cubbridge-head (n.) A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.

Wich :: Wich (n.) A street; a village; a castle; a dwelling; a place of work, or exercise of authority; -- now obsolete except in composition; as, bailiwick, Warwick, Greenwick..

Gangway :: Gangway (v. i.) That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the waist..

Castled :: Castled (a.) Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls..

Keeler :: Keeler (n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman.

Rook :: Rook (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.

Decay :: Decay (n.) Gradual failure of health, strength, soundness, prosperity, or of any species of excellence or perfection; tendency toward dissolution or extinction; corruption; rottenness; decline; deterioration; as, the decay of the body; the decay of virtue; the decay of the Roman empire; a castle in decay..

Incastellated :: Incastellated (a.) Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Donjon :: Donjon (n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle..

Castleward :: Castleward (n.) Same as Castleguard.

Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..

Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) The guard or defense of a castle.

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

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