<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Also called patience.</li><li>Any of various games played by one person with one or more regular 52-card packs, part or all of which are usually dealt out according to a given pattern, the object being to arrange the cards in a predetermined manner.</li><li>A game played by one person alone, as a game played with marbles or pegs on a board having hollows or holes.</li><li>A precious stone, especially a diamond, set by itself, as in a ring.</li><li>Any of several American thrushes of the genus Myadestes, having short, broad bills and noted for their beautiful songs.</li><li>A large extinct flightless bird of the genus Pezophaps, related to the dodo but with a longer neck, smaller bill, and longer legs, that inhabited the Mascarene Islands.</li></ul>