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.

• Objecting
  of Object
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Righteoused
  Made righteous.
• Right-running
  Straight; direct.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Childlessness
  The state of being childless.
• 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.
• 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.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Childlike
  Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
• 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.]

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