Adrawing-room with folded doors is the best for the purpose. Various household appliances are employed to fit up something like a stage, and to supply the fitting scenes Characters dressed in costume, made up of handkerchiefs, coats, shawls, table-covers, etc., come on and perform an extempore play, founded on the parts of a word, and its whole, as indicated above. For instance, the events explained in the poem above might be acted - glasses might be rung for bells - something might be said in the course of the dialogues about the sound of the- bells being delightful to the ear; there might be a dance of the villager, in which a ring might be formed; a wedding might be performed; and so on. Though for acting Charades there are many better words, because Ear-ring could with difficulty be represented without at once betraying the meaning.

2441. Words Which May Be Converted Into Acting Or Written Charades

Aid-less

Air-pump

Ale-house

Ann-ounce

Archangel

ArmJet

Art-less

Ass-ail

Ba-boon

Back-bite

Back-slide

Bag-gage

Bag-pipe

Bag-dad

Bail able

Bale-ful

Band-age

Band-box

Bane-ful

Bar-bed

Bar-gain

Bar rack

Bar- row

Bat-ten

Beard-less

Bid-den

Bird-lime

Birth-right

Black-guard

Blame-less

Block-head

Boat-man

Boot-jack

Book-worm

Bound-less

Bowling

Brace-let

Brain-less

Break-fast

Break-less

Brick-bat

Brick-dust

Bride-groom

Bride-cake

Brim-stone

Broad-cloth

Broad-side

Broad-sword

Brow-beat

Bug-bear

Bull-dog

Bump-kin

Buoy-ant

But-ton

Cab-in

Can-did

Can-ton

Care-ful

Car-pet

Car-rot

Cart-ridge

Chair-man

Chamber-maid

Cheerful

Cheer-less

Christ-mas

Church-yard

Clans-men

Clerk-ship

Cob web

Cock-pit

Cod ling

Coin-age

Con-tent

Con-fined

Con-firm

Con-form

Con-test

Con-tract

Con-verse

Cork-screw

Count-less

Court ship

Crab-bed

Cross-bow

Cur-tail

Cut-throat

Dark-some

Day-break

Death-watch

Dog-ma

Don-key

Drink-able

Drug-get

Duckling

Ear-ring

Earth-quake

Ear-wig

False-hood

Fan-atic

Fare-well

Far-thing

Fear-less

Feeling

Field-fare

Fire-lock

Fire-man

Fire-pan

Fire-ship

Fire-work

Fir-kin

Fish-hook

Flag-rant

Flip-pant

Flood-gate

Fondling

Foot-ball

Foot-man

Foot-pad

Foot-step

Foot-stool

For-age

For-bear

For-bid

Fox-glove

Free-hold

Free-stone

Fret-work

Friend-ship

Frost-bite

Fur-long

Gain-say

Gang-way

Glow-worm

Glut-ton

God-father

God-mother

Goddaughter

God-son

God-like

God-child

Gold-finch

Gold-smith

Goose-berry

Grand-father

Grate-ful

Green-finch

Grey-hound

Grate-stone

Grim-ace

Grind-stone

Ground-plot

Ground-sel

Guard-ship

Gun-powder

Had-dock

Hail-stone

Hail-storm

Half-penny

Ham-let

Ham-mock

Hand cuff

Hang-man

Hap-pen

Hard-ship

Harts-horn

Head-land

Head-long

Head-less

Head-stone

Head-strong

Hear-say

Heart-less

Heart-sick

Heart-string

Hedge-hog

Heir-less

Heir-loom

Hell-hound

Hell-kite

Hence-forth

Hen-roost

Herb-age

Herds-man

Her-self

Hidden

High-land

High-way

Hind-moat

Hoar-frost

Hob-goblin

Hogs-head

Home-bred

Honey-comb

Honey-bag

Honey-moon

Honey suckle

Hood-wink

Horseback

Horse-shoe

Host-age

Hot-bed

Hot-house

Hot-spur

Hounds-ditch

Hour-glass

House-hold

House-maid

House-wife

Hum-drum

Hump-back

Hurri-cane

Ill-nature

Ill-usage

In-action

In-born

In-crease

In-justice

Inkling

In-land

In-mate

In-no-cent

In-sane

In-spirit

In-tent

Intermeddle

Inter-sect

Inter-view

In-valid

In-vent

In-vest

In-ward

Ire-ful