See also:

• SPILLIKINS (M.D., spelleken, little pin), or JACKSTRAWS (originally " jerk-straws" )

SPILLIKINS (M.D., spelleken, little See also:

• PIN (a doublet with " pen " from Lat. pinna, feather, pinnacle, which is said to contain the same root as irirvs, pine tree, and properly to mean a sharp point or end)

pin), or JACKSTRAWS (originally " jerk-straws" )  , a See also:

• GAME

game of some antiquity played with a set of slender sticks of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood, See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone or See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory, from 3 to 6 in. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, generally carved to represent weapons and utensils of various kinds, which are thrown in a heap haphazard upon the table . The players then endeavour in turn to extricate from the heap, one at a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, as many straws as possible, without moving any except the one, angled for . The player obtaining the most straws wins . The game is called in See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French jonchets and in See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Federspiel .