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1. blot, n.2 View full entry 1598
...In Backgammon: An exposed piece or ‘man’ liable to be taken or forfeited; also, the action of so exposing a piece. to hit a blot: to ‘take’ the...
2. † bone-ace, n. View full entry 1611
...A game at cards in which the third card dealt to each player is turned up, and the player who has the highest obtains the ‘bone’ or half the stake; also the...
3. cavesson, n. View full entry 1598
...A kind of nose-band of iron, leather, or wood, ‘fixed to the nostrils of a horse, to curb or render him manageable through the pain it occasions’ (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.)....
4. † cestes, n. View full entry 1578
...The game of chess....
5. chuckle, v. View full entry 1598
...intr. ‘To laugh vehemently; to laugh convulsively’ (Johnson). Cf. checkleObs....
6. discard, v. View full entry 1591
...Cards. To throw out or reject (a card) from the hand. Also absol....
7. disengage, v. View full entry 1603
...trans. To free from engagement, pledge, contract, or obligation. Obs. exc. as pa. pple....
8. flush, adj.2 View full entry 1591
...Of a player: Holding a flush, i.e. cards all of the same colour or suit (obs.)....
9. ˈhighman | high man, n. View full entry 1598
...Usually pl. Dice loaded so as to turn up high numbers. Cf. high-runner...
10. ˈhoof-bound, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1598
...Affected with a painful dryness and contraction of the hoof; having the shoe put on too tight, causing the horse to go lame. Also as a name of the affection....
11. ˈhurdle, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To construct like a hurdle; to wattle....
12. † inˈcorded, adj. View full entry 1611
...Of a horse: Ruptured; suffering from hernia....
13. † inˈcording, n. View full entry 1598
...Rupture or hernia in a horse....
14. intermewed, adj. View full entry 1598
...Applied to a hawk after her first ‘mewing’ or moulting, and before receiving her next coat, when she becomes a ‘white hawk’....
15. leveller, n. View full entry 1598
...In material senses:...
16. † ˈloadum, n. View full entry 1591
...A game of cards; in one form, called losing loadum, the loser won the game....
17. manager, n. View full entry 1598
...gen. A person who organizes, directs, or plots something; a person who regulates or deploys resources; †the wielder of a weapon (obs.). Now rare....
18. nullo, n. View full entry 1598
...A nought, a zero; esp. in Typogr.Obs....
19. organized, adj. View full entry 1598
...Provided with organs; composed of parts connected and coordinated for vital functions or processes; living; organic....
20. outrunner, n.1 View full entry 1598
...A person who or animal which runs along the outside or outer side of something, as an attendant who runs ahead of or beside a carriage, a dog leading a team of...
