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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.
Gailliarde
Gailliarde Gail*liarde", n. [See Galliard a dance.] A lively French and Italian dance.
lawn billiards
Troco Tro"co, n. An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
Milliard
Milliard Mil`liard", n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.
Spilliard fishing
Spillet fishing Spil"let fish`ing, Spilliard fishing Spil"liard fish`ing, A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
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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- then milliart and finally our modern term. Concerning names ending in -illiard for numbers 106n+3, milliard is certainly in widespread use in languages...
- milliard (109); after a billion it is billiard (1015). Hence, a long scale n-illiard equals 106n+3. The following table shows the size of first few short and...
- Eliza Illiard (1905–1969) was a German singer and actress. What Am I Without You (1934) Paganini (1934) Scandal at the Fledermaus (1936) Love's Awakening...
- The Fiakermilli, belle of the Coachmen's Ball coloratura soprano Ellice Illiard A fortune-teller soprano Jessyka Koettrik Welko, Djura, Jankel, Mandryka's...
- Petrovich, Eliza Illiard, and Theo Lingen. It is an adaptation of Franz Lehár's 1925 operetta Paganini. Iván Petrovich as Paganini Eliza Illiard as Duchess...
- 1937-1952, the home was occupied by composter Will Meisel and actress Eliza Illiard. The first member of the Alexander family to return to the home was Dr...
- Hynes (born 1992), Australian rules footballer and volleyball player Eliza Illiard (1905–1969), German actress Eliza Buckley Ingalls (1848–1918), American...
- Garring Alfred Abel as Patrick, Butler Erich Fiedler as Jonny Dunn Eliza Illiard as Evelyne Dixon Max Gülstorff as Die Exzellenz Roma Bahn as Lady X Eva...
- Mártha Eggerth, Paul Kemp Musical Paganini E.W. Emo Iván Petrovich, Eliza Illiard, Theo Lingen Musical Pappi Arthur Maria Rabenalt Viktor de Kowa, Hilde...
- author's original. (One example: in Act III, scene i, a character named Mr. Illiard enters, but speaks no lines, and is present nowhere else in the play.)...