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n. A card game ancestral to bridge, played with a full deck by two teams of two players, in which the last card dealt indicates trump, tricks of four cards are played, and a point is scored for each trick over six won by each team.

n. Any of several four-player card games, similar to bridge.

n. Sessions of playing the card game.

adj. silent

v. To silence; still.

v. To become silent.

interjection. Alternative spelling of whisht. Silence! Quiet! Hush! Shhh!

interjection. Be silent; be still; hush; silence.

n. A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, the hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.

v. To hush or silence.

verb-intransitive. To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.

adj. Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.

Silence! hush! be still!

Hushed; silent; mute; still: chiefly used predicatively.

n. A game played with cards by four persons, two of them as partners in opposition to the other two, also partners.

n. a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six

"Little wonder, then, that the chief spectator of this agreeable tableau grew nightly more enamored, and while the elders were deep in whist, the young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps."

whists   

card game    cards   

swedish whist    scotch whist    double-dummy whist    mongrel whist    fancy whist    kalamazoo whist    drive whist    domino whist    straight whist    dummy whist   

hearts    Black Maria    dummy whist   

German whist    solo whist   

hush    silence    silent    mute    still    quiet   

piquet    billiards    backgammon    cribbage    chess    picquet    croquet    faro    quinze    baccarat