The preceding account has been, as far as practicable, divested of technical terms, in order that it might be the more intelligible to the uninitiated. Many of the words and phrases, however, used in Curling are peculiar to the game--throwing light on its origin and history,--and it would now be as difficult for Curlers to abolish the language of the rink, as it would be for the gentlemen of certain learned professions, to substitute the Queen's English for their most unclassical Latin. An explanation of the following terms, which are in constant use, is therefore indispensable in a work of this nature; _Angled Guard_--A stone which obliquely covers or guards one stone or more. _Bias_--An inclination in the ice, tending to lead a stone off the direction given to it by the player. _Block the ice_--See "fill the ice." _Boardhead_--See "brough." _Bonspel_, _bonspiel_, _bonspeel_--(French, _bon_, good, and Belgic, _spell_, a play--a good game; or Suio-Gothic, _bonne_, a husbandman; or Belgic, _bonne_, a village or district; because one district challenges another to play at this game.) A match at Curling between two opposite parties. _Break an egg on_--To strike one stone very gently with another. _Brough_--(Alemanic, _bruchus_, a camp, often circular). The space within the largest circle drawn round the tee. _Channel-stane_--A Curling stone is so named in the southern counties of Scotland, probably from stones found in streams having been first used for curling. _Chuckle to_--To make two or more inwicks up a port to a given stone. _Creep_--(Come creeping up the rink) the stones are said to creep when they are thrown with little force. _Curling_--(German, _kurzweillin_, to play for amusement; or Teutonic, _krullen_, _krollen_, SINUARE, to bend,--as the great art of the game is to make the stones _bend_, _twist_ (_quod vide_), CURL, towards the mark, when they cannot reach it in a straight line.) Sliding stones along the ice towards a mark. _Dead guard_--A stone which completely covers another, concealing it from the view of the next player, is a dead guard upon that other. _Deliver_--To throw the stone. _Director_--The same as "skip" or "skipper." _Draw a shot_--to play to a spot pointed out by the director, having no other stone to strike or rest upon. _Dour_, _drug_, _dull_--The state of the ice when the stone cannot easily be thrown the length of the rink. _End_--That portion of the game in which the stones are all played to one end of the rink. _Guard_--To lay a stone in a line before another; or the stone so laid.