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n. (Bot.) A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as confidence game. [ PJC ]

n. the lemonwood tree (Calycophyllum candidissimum); -- it is a tropical American tree which is source of a tough elastic wood.
Syn. -- lemonwood tree, Calycophyllum candidissimum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A first game; first plan. [ Obs. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. W. cam crooked, and E. gambol, n. ] Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. game, gamen, AS. gamen, gomen, play, sport; akin to OS., OHG., & Icel. gaman, Dan. gammen mirth, merriment, OSw. gamman joy. Cf. Gammon a game, Backgammon, Gamble v. i. ] 1. Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

But war's a game, which, were their subject wise,
Kings would not play at. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Among the ancients, especially the Greeks and Romans, there were regularly recurring public exhibitions of strength, agility, and skill under the patronage of the government, usually accompanied with religious ceremonies. Such were the Olympic, the Pythian, the Nemean, and the Isthmian games. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. [ 1913 Webster ]

Talk the game o'er between the deal. Lloyd. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Card Playing) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your murderous game is nearly up. Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those species of animals . . . distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confidence game. See under Confidence. --
To make game of, to make sport of; to mock. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Game bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken. --
Game bird, any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. --
Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. --
Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game for food or for sport. --
Game preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. [ Eng. ] --
To be game. (a) To show a brave, unyielding spirit. (b) To be victor in a game. [ Colloq. ] --
To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to die fighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gamed p. pr. & vb. n. Gaming. ] [ OE. gamen, game&unr_;en, to rejoice, AS. gamenian to play. See Game, n. ] 1. To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God loved he best with all his whole hearte
At alle times, though him gamed or smarte. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To play at any sport or diversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The male game fowl. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of game or games. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time. Syn. -- hunting license, game license. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a plucky manner; spiritedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Endurance; pluck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a game that involves gambling.
Syn. -- game of chance, gambling game. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A plan for achieving an objective (especially in some sport). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) or for table games.
Syn. -- rumpus room, playroom, game room. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a television program in which contestants compete for awards. The contestants are members of the public selected to participate on the show, and not employed by the producer of the show. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron.

-- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Game + -ster. ] 1. A merry, frolicsome person. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute; a strumpet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) A cell or organ in which gametes develop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths husband, fr. gamei^n to marry. ] (Biol.) A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes; a conjugating cell which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though also extended to the germ cells of higher forms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A branch of mathematics that deals with strategies for maximizing gains or minimizing losses in competitive situations having defined constraints and involving random factors. Game theory is used for modelling and analysis of various decision-making situations such as military strategy or business policy. The theoretical models study the interactions among opposing entities called "players," where different kinds of situation can arise, for which the probabilities of occurence are known. Also known is the set of decisions each player can take. When a player takes a decision he makes a gain or incurs a loss. Based on the available knowledge each player tries to adopt a "strategy" so as to maximize his gains. The entire procedure constitutes a game.
Syn. -- theory of games. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Biol.) An immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Biol.) A modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gamete + Gr. fyto`n plant. ] (Bot.) In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a public official who is responsible for the enforcement of laws regarding the hunting of animals. Syn. -- gamekeeper, game warden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. suggestive of sexual impropriety; as, he skips asterisks and gives you the gamey details.
Syn. -- blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy, sexy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. foul-smelling; -- used of the smell of game beginning to taint.
Syn. -- gamy, high. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. spirited and resolute.
Syn. -- game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. willing to proceed or act.
Syn. -- game. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. 1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a long Babylonian epic written in cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is probably the first written story still in existence. A longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12 clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C. The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni. [ PJC ]

☞ The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)

and

Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)

n. [ L. ligamentum, fr. ligare to bind; cf. f. ligament. Cf. Lien, n., Ligature. ] 1. Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) (a) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints. (b) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. ligamenteux. ] Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Mega- + -meter: cf. F. mégamètre. ] (Physics) 1. An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A micrometer. [ R. & Obs. ] Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Mega- + meter, metre, n., 2. ] In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The moorfowl.
Syn. -- red grouse, moorbird, Lagopus scoticus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ or }. (Greek Antiq.), The greatest of the national festivals of the ancient Greeks, consisting of athletic games and races, dedicated to Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four years at Olympia, and continuing five days. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896. There are now two sets of modern Olympic games, the summer games and the winter games. Both had been held every four years, in the same year, but in 1998 for the first time the winter games began to be held two years after the summer games, though each series is still held only once every four years. The number and types of sports contests held at the olympics has greatly expanded from the original number. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

{ } a. [ L. pergamena parchment. See Parchment. ] Like parchment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wandering + E. gamete. ] (Bot.) One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algæ (Chlorophyceæ). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Play of children. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Anat.) A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. purgamentum offscourings, washings, expiatory sacrifice. See Purge. ] 1. That which is excreted; excretion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A cathartic; a purgative. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]