Word Meanings - DRAUGHTBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard.
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- PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
The office, art, or work of a draughtsman. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - CHECKERBERRY
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen . Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry . - PLAYFELLOW
A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - PLAYTHING
A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke. - CHECKERWORK
1. Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials. 2. Any aggregate of varied vicissitudes. How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man. De Foe. - DRAUGHTSMAN
1. One who draws pleadings or other writings. 2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. 3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts. 4. One who drinks - PLAYSOME
Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n. - CHECKER
One who checks. - PLAYGAME
Play of children. Locke. - PLAYER
1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester; - PLAYMATE
A companion in diversions; a playfellow. - PLAYBOOK
A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. Swift. - CHECKERED
1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton. 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay. - PLAYING
a. & vb. n. of Play. Playing cards. See under Card. - SIDEBOARD
A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton. - WEATHERBOARDING
The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - CHESSBOARD
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike. - MEDAL PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes. - ABOARD
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land - WASTEBOARD
See 3 - SPLAYFOOT
A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot. - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - WASHBOARD
A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - SPLAYMOUTH
A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden. - SCALEBOARD
A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard. - VERGEBOARD
The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof , and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard. - WORDPLAY
A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.