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The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw.

• Seesaw
  A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
• Trumpie
  The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus).
• Whereout
  Out of which.
• Whistlefish
  A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-bearded rockling, sea loach, and sorghe.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Seesawad
  of Seesaw
• Trumplike
  Resembling a trumpet, esp. in sound; as, a trumplike voice.
• Whereso
  Wheresoever.
• Whistler
  One who, or that which, whistles, or produces or a whistling sound.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Otherguess
  Of another kind or sort; in another way.
• Seesawing
  of Seesaw
• Wheresoe'er
  Wheresoever.
• Whistlewing
  The American golden-eye.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.

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