Lawn n.
1. An open space between woods.
=\“Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.”\= --Tennyson.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns.
Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.
Ten·nis n. A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. --Macaulay.
Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis.
Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n.
Tennis court, a place or court for playing the game of tennis. --Shak.
lawn tennis
n : a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a
ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
[syn: tennis]