Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
     place of amusement, theater; hall, concert room, ballroom,
assemblyroom[obs3]; music hall.
     park, plaisance[obs3]; national park, national forest, state park,
county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) 737a; arbor; garden &c. (horticulture) 371; pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum[obs3], skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe[Fr].
     game of chance, game of skill.
     athletic sports, gymnastics; archery, rifle shooting; tournament,
pugilism &c. (contention) 720; sports &c. 622; horse racing, the turf; aquatics &c. 267; skating, sliding; cricket, tennis, lawn tennis; hockey, football, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball; rackets, fives, trap bat and ball, battledore and shuttlecock, la grace; pall-mall, tipcat[obs3], croquet, golf, curling, pallone[obs3], polo, water polo; tent pegging; tilting at the ring, quintain[obs3][medeival]; greasy pole; quoits, horseshoes, discus; rounders, lacrosse; tobogganing, water polo; knurr and spell[obs3].
     [childrens’ games] leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French
and English, tug of war; blindman’s bluff, hunt the slopper[obs3], hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones[obs3], marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag &c.
     billiards, pool, pingpong, pyramids, bagatelle; bowls, skittles,
ninepins, kain[obs3], American bowls[obs3]; tenpins [U.S.], tivoli.
     cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage,
besique[obs3], euchre, drole[obs3], ecarte[Fr], picquet[obs3], allfours[obs3], quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston[obs3]; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun[Fr]; quinze[Fr], thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino[obs3], lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren[obs3], lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis[obs3], squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.
     [cards:  list] ace, king, queen, knave, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, trey, deuce; joker; trump, wild card.
     [card suits:  list] spades, hearts, clubs, diamonds; major suit, minor
suit.
     bower; right bower, left bower; dummy; jackpot; deck.
     [hands at poker:  list] pair, two pair, three of a kind, straight,
flush, full-house, four of a kind, royal flush; misere &c.
     [board games:  list] chess, draughts, checkers, checquers, backgammon,
dominos, merelles[obs3], nine men’s morris, go bang, solitaire; game of fox and goose; monopoly; loto &c.
     [obs3] scrabble[word
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