Word Meanings - HANDYY-DANDY - 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.

• Wronging
  of Wrong
• Closemouthed
  Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
• CLOSEBODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• Forfeiter
  One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.
• RIGHTMINDED
  Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
• Objecting
  of Object
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Righteoused
  Made righteous.
• Right-running
  Straight; direct.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Childlessness
  The state of being childless.
• Wrongdoer
  One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• CLOSEFIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]
• 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.
• RIGHTRUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• Object
  To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
• Otherguise
  Alt. of Otherguess
• Righteously
  In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
• Rightward
  Toward the right.

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