a. Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. “Smooth as is a billiard ball.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick. ] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ See Galliard a dance. ] A lively French and Italian dance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE., fr. F. gaillard, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. & Gael. galach valiant, or AS. gagol, geagl, wanton, lascivious. ] Gay; brisk; active. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brisk, gay man. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Selden is a galliard by himself. Cleveland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gaillarde, cf. Sp. gallarda. See Galliard, a. ] A gay, lively dance. Cf. Gailliarde. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never a hall such a galliard did grace. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gaillardise. See Galliard, a. ] Excessive gayety; merriment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The mirth and galliardise of company. Sir. T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Gayety. [ Obs. ] Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OF. goliart glutton, buffoon, riotous student, Goliard, LL. goliardus, prob. fr. L. gula throat. Cf. Gules. ] A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Halyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. liart, LL. liardus gray, dapple. ] Gray. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Used by Chaucer as an epithet of a gray or dapple gray horse. Also used as a name for such a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille. ] A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr. paille straw. See Pallet a small bed. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A born beggar; a vagabond. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lecher; a lewd person. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing. [ 1913 Webster ]