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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]