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

Plural form of stick, slang crutches, slang, with "the" rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region

A tenacious, diligent, or persistent person, An article of merchandise which sticks by the dealer and does not meet with a ready sale, plural The arms of a crank-axis employed to change the plane and direction of a reciprocating motion, verb_ To apply one or more stickers to (something), To mark as the sticker price, adjective_ nonstandard, informal comparative form of stick_ more stick (stickier)

a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; -- so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited, Of a reddish pink colour, noun_ A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips, A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass, A finely powdered red oxid of iron, or hematite (which see), generally mixed with a paste or glue and sold in sticks or in the form of powder, verb_ redden by applying rouge to, To apply rouge (makeup.), transitive verb_ To tint with rouge, intransitive verb_ To put rouge onto, To color or prettify as if with a facial cosmetic, To paint the face or cheeks with rouge

Plural of bacterium, [capitalized] A genus of gressorial orthopterous insects, of the family Phasmid‘; the stick-insects or walking-sticks B sarmentosa is about 10 inches long See Phasmid‘

a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field; two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net, a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks, A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals

A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere with a membrane stretched tightly over one or both ends, played by beating with the hands or sticks, A doffer in a carding-machine, The barrel of a crane or windlass, intransitive verb_ To perform (a piece or tune) on or as if on a drum, To summon by or as if by beating a drum

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