The Boy's Own Book: A Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports and Pastimes, Athletic, Scientific, and Recreative |
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Common terms and phrases
acid amusement appear bait ball batsman beautiful become bird blue body bottle bottom bowling cage called centre checkmate colour copper covered Cricket Croesus Croquet distance drachms eggs electricity fastened feathers feet figure fingers fish fixed foot four give glass ground gutta percha head hive hole horse inches iron keep king larvæ legs length Leyden jar light magnet means metal moulting move nest nitrate nitric acid number thought object ounce paper pass performed person phosphorus piece pinion feathers plants plate play player plumage position produce quantity rabbits rape seed ring seeds side silver solution soon square stand stick strike striker strong sufficient sulphuric acid tail taken throw touch trick tube turn wicket wicket-keeper wire wood yellow young zinc