Word Meanings - HANDYDANDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.

• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Righteous
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
• Rightness
  Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
• Childlessness
  The state of being childless.
• Wronged
  of Wrong
• Closemouthed
  Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
• CLOSEBARRED
  Firmly barred or closed.
• Forfeiter
  One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
• RIGHTLINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• Objecting
  of Object
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Righteoused
  Made righteous.
• Right-running
  Straight; direct.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Childlike
  Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
• Wronging
  of Wrong
• CLOSEBODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• Forfeiture
  The act of forfeiting; the loss of some right, privilege, estate, honor, office, or effects, by an offense, crime, breach of condition, or other act.

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