Billiards
['bɪljədz] or ['bɪljɚdz]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
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Definition
(n.) 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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Definition
n. a game played with a cue or mace and balls on a table having pockets at the sides and corners.—adj. Bill′iard.—n. Bill′iard-mark′er a person who marks the points made by the players.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Billiards, foretell coming troubles to the dreamer. Law suits and contentions over property. Slander will get in her work to your detriment. If you see table and balls idle, deceitful comrades are undermining you{.}
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Examples
- I'd like to play a few more games at billiards with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Some of the gentlemen were gone to the stables: the younger ones, together with the younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-room. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They seem for the most part shabby in attire, dingy of linen, lovers of billiards and brandy, and cigars and greasy ordinaries. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If your son John took to billiards, now, he'd make a fool of himself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- From that time to the present the tide of popularity for billiards as the premier indoor game has been steadily rising. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cotton’s Compleat Gamster published in 1674, refers to billiards as This most gentle, cleanly and ingenious game. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Horse billiards is a fine game. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Shakespeare, in Anthony and Cleopatra (Act II, Scene 5), makes the latter say, Let us to billiards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He played a lovely game of billiards and with the handicap I was only four ahead at fifty. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- One hot Saturday night, after Mr. Edison had looked over the evening papers, he said to me: 'Do you want to play a game of billiards? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Gad, I'll write him a note, and have him; and I'll try if he can play piquet as well as billiards. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Billiards was brought to America by the Spaniards who settled St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I asked Mrs. Fairfax if she had seen him;--yes: she believed he was playing billiards with Miss Ingram. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Billiards was the game of the aristocracy and the Puritan hated not only the aristocrat, but the style and color of his clothes, the cut of his hair, as well as the games he played. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Carom and pocket billiards are so different that either they must be played on separate tables, or else the rails are so constructed as to be interchangeable. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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