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Accordionist :: Accordionist (n.) A player on the accordion.

Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

Buffet :: Buffet (n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard..

Quadrille :: Quadrille (n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded..

Handyy-dandy :: Handyy-dandy (n.) A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit..

Action :: Action (n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events..

Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A game played with quoits.

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

Domineer :: Domineer (v. t.) To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents..

Cockal :: Cockal (n.) A game played with sheep's bones instead of dic.

Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..

Oratorio :: Oratorio (n.) A more or less dramatic text or poem, founded on some Scripture nerrative, or great divine event, elaborately set to music, in recitative, arias, grand choruses, etc., to be sung with an orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted..

Man :: Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played..

Coquet :: Coquet (v. i.) To trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to play (with); as, we have coquetted with political crime..

Tibicinate :: Tibicinate (v. i.) To play on a tibia, or pipe..

Mall :: Mall (n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

Tyrant :: Tyrant (v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand..

Whist :: Whist (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed..

Underact :: Underact (v. t.) To perform inefficiently, as a play; to act feebly..

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