Word Meanings - FIVES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; - - so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game. Smart. Fives court, a place for playing fives.

Related words: (words related to FIVES)

• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• 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
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• NAMABLE
  Capable of being named.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.