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Word Meanings - PUSHPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A child's game played with pins. L. Estrange.

Related words: (words related to PUSHPIN)

  • CHILDSHIP
    The state or relation of being a child.
  • 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
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • PLAYWRITER
    A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
  • CHILDED
    Furnished with a child.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • PLAYTE
    See PLEYT
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.
  • CHILDISH
    1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
  • CHILD STUDY
    A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
  • CHILDCROWING
    The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • 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.
  • CHILDBED
    The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
  • PLAYSOME
    Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
  • 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;
  • ESTRANGEDNESS
    State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • MEDAL PLAY
    Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
  • 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.
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • SPLAYMOUTH
    A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
  • WORDPLAY
    A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
  • PHOTOPLAY
    A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.

 

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