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Billiard
Billiard Bil"liard, a. Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. ``Smooth as is a billiard ball.' --B. Jonson.
Billiards
Billiards Bil"liards, n. [F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick.] 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.
lawn billiards
Troco Tro"co, n. An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
To nurse billiard balls
Nurse Nurse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nursing.] 1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. --Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden. 2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. ``To nurse the saplings tall.' --Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke. 3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. 4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope. To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.

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- following species are recognized: Billia hippocastanum Billia rosea Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and Peter Møller Jørgensen (2004). "Billia Peyr". Trees and shrubs of...
- Billias, p. 159, 200 Billias, pp. 199-201 Billias, p. 209 Billias, pp. 207–08 Billias, p. 212 Billias, p. 211 Billias, p. 213 Billias, p. 214 Billias...
- Pritchett 1959, p. 153. Levinson 1987, p. 118. Levinson 1987, p. 119. Billias 2009, xi–xv. Farber 2003, p. 3. Farber 2003, p. 198. Stacy 2003, p. 436...
- 2013, p. xi Stewart, R. 2005, vol. 4, p. 103 Clode 1869, Vol. 1, p. 268 Billias 1969, p. 83 Clayton 2014, p. 65 O'Shaunessy 2013, p. 86 Ketchum 1997, p...
- was considered to be in the ditypic family Hippocastanaceae along with Billia, but phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data have more...
- The European Marine Energy Centre has installed a wave testing system at Billia Croo on the Orkney mainland and a tidal power testing station on the nearby...
- George Athan Billias (June 26, 1919 – August 16, 2018) was an American historian. Billias was born in Lynn, M****achusetts, and graduated from Lynn English...
-  354–357. Wells II 1996, p. 742. Billias 1976, p. 289. Billias 1976, p. 288. Billias 1976, p. 283. Billias 1976, p. 284. Billias 1976, pp. 285–286. Smith 1996...
- 1880–1896. New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 108077. Grob, Gerald N.; Billias, George Athan (1972). From Jacksonian Democracy to the Gilded Age-Historical...
- Grand Hotel Billia is a historic luxury hotel located in Saint-Vincent, Aosta Valley in Italy. The building was built in 1908 on behalf of Italian entrepreneur...