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Look up: Draughts

  1. Draughts
    Draughts noun plural A mild vesicatory. See Draught , noun , 3 (c) .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/119

  2. Draughts
    Draughts noun plural A game, now more commonly called checkers . See Checkers . » Polish draughts is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares. Am. Cyc.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/119

  3. Draughts
    • (n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c). • (n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  4. draughts
    draughts: see checkers.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  5. Draughts
    Draughts is a game resembling chess played on a board divided into sixty-four checkered squares. Each of the two players is provided with twelve pieces or 'men' placed on every alternate square at each end of the board. The men are moved forward diagonally to the right or left one square at a time, ...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  6. draughts
    Board game with elements of a simplified form of chess. Each of the two players has 12 disc-shaped pieces, and attempts either to capture all the opponent's pieces or to block their movements
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  7. draughts
    The game of checkers
    Found on http://charlesdickenspage.com/glossary.h

  8. Draughts
    `Draughts` (, British English; `checkers`, American English) is a group of abstract strategy board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemy`s pieces. Draughts developed from alquerque. The name derives from the verb ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draughts

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13 February 2012

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The fifth queen of Henry VIII was Catherine Howard. Her father was very poor, and Catherine lived mainly with Agnes, widow of the 2nd duke of Norfolk. Henry was evidently charmed by her and he was privately married to Catherine at Oatlands in July 1540. In November 1541 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer informed Henry that his queen's past life had not been stainless. After some denials the queen herself admitted that this was true; but denied that she had misconducted herself since her marriage. Some fresh information, however, very soon came to light showing that she had been unchaste since her marriage; a bill of attainder was passed through parliament, and on the 13th of February 1542 the queen was beheaded. read more

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