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billiard
(encz) | billiard,kulečník n: Zdeněk Brož |
Billiard
(gcide) | Billiard \Bil"liard\, a.
Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a
billiard ball." --B. Jonson.
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billiard
(wn) | billiard
adj 1: of or relating to billiards; "a billiard ball"; "a
billiard cue"; "a billiard table" |
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billiards
(encz) | billiards,kulečník |
pocket billiards
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Billiard
(gcide) | Billiard \Bil"liard\, a.
Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a
billiard ball." --B. Jonson.
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Billiards
(gcide) | Billiards \Bil"liards\, n. [F. billiard billiards, OF. billart
staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a
stick.]
A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular
table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel
his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom
upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the
pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.
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lawn billiards
(gcide) | Troco \Tro"co\, n.
An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
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To nurse billiard balls
(gcide) | Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nursing.]
1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as:
(a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend,
as an infant.
(b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an
invalid; to attend upon.
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Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
--Milton.
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Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore,
And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.
--Dryden.
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2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid
condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants,
animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by,
attention. "To nurse the saplings tall." --Milton.
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By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so
uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke.
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3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
as, to nurse our national resources.
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4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope.
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To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to
keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
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bar billiards
(wn) | bar billiards
n 1: a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls
into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are
incurred if the pegs are knocked over [syn: bagatelle,
bar billiards] |
billiard ball
(wn) | billiard ball
n 1: ball used in playing billiards |
billiard hall
(wn) | billiard hall
n 1: a room in which billiards is played [syn: billiard room,
billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour,
billiard hall] |
billiard marker
(wn) | billiard marker
n 1: a device for keeping the score in a game of billiards |
billiard parlor
(wn) | billiard parlor
n 1: a room in which billiards is played [syn: billiard room,
billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour,
billiard hall] |
billiard parlour
(wn) | billiard parlour
n 1: a room in which billiards is played [syn: billiard room,
billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour,
billiard hall] |
billiard player
(wn) | billiard player
n 1: someone who plays billiards |
billiard room
(wn) | billiard room
n 1: a room in which billiards is played [syn: billiard room,
billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour,
billiard hall] |
billiard saloon
(wn) | billiard saloon
n 1: a room in which billiards is played [syn: billiard room,
billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour,
billiard hall] |
billiard table
(wn) | billiard table
n 1: game equipment consisting of a heavy table on which pool is
played [syn: pool table, billiard table, {snooker
table}] |
billiards
(wn) | billiards
n 1: any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered
table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue
sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls |
pocket billiards
(wn) | pocket billiards
n 1: any of various games played on a pool table having 6
pockets [syn: pool, pocket billiards] |
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