Word Meanings - CASINO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A small country house. 2. A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc. 3. A game at cards. See Cassino.

Related words: (words related to CASINO)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DANCER
  One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• GAMING
  The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• GAMOGENETIC
  Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
• GAMOMORPHISM
  That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
• DANCY
  See DANCETTé
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• GAMIC
  Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• GAMBET
  Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• GAMMON
  The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• GAMBA
  A viola da gamba.
• GAMMADION
  A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
• PUBLICAN
  A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans
• MISOGAMIST
  A hater of marriage.
• MEGAMPERE
  A million ampères.
• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• AUTOGAMOUS
  Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
• AMALGAM
  A native compound of mercury and silver. (more info) 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things.
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.