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clearbay thebreastandlowerpartsofthebodysolidblack, game-bird (gam ' berd), n. A bird ordinarily 
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or which is or ma 
gamete 
(gam'pla), n. 
Games in ainphi- 
ngs, pili 
See liroum. Bumper game. 
games. SeeCapwwm*. Cockof thegamat. See 
Confidence game. Stenm/K/w.-. Exhibition game, 
a game-cock or -hen of a breed cultivated for perfection of 
form and coloring, without reference to the fighting quali- 
ties of the primitive game stock. Floral games. Sec 
Jloral. Game law. See yame-lan: Game Of goose. 
See noose, 4. Game protection, the protection of game 
animals, specifically by legal restriction of the times for 
and methods of pursuing them. Megalesian, Nemean, 
Olympic, etc., games. See the adjectives. Pit-game, 
a cock or hen of a fighting breed.- Red game, the Scotch 
ptarmigan, Lagopus scoticus. Round game, a game, as 
at cards, in which an indefinite number of players can en- 
gage, each playing on his own account. 
After the little music they sat down to a round game, of 
which there were a great many, such as Commerce, Specu- 
lation, Vingt-et-Un, Limited Loo, or Pope Joan. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 90. 
The game Is not worth the candle. See candle. 
The game is up. (a) In hunting, the game is started. 
He that strikes 
The venison first shall be lord o' the feast. 
. . . Hark ! the game is rous'd ! 
. . . The game is up. Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 3. 
(li) The scheme has failed ; all is at an end. [Colloq.] 
The universal opinion is that the game is irrecoverably 
up, and that the tory party will be in power for fifty years 
to come. S. Dowell, Taxes in England, II. 304. 
To make (formerly a) game Of, to turn into ridicule ; 
make sport of ; mock ; delude or humbug. 
Whanne I speke aftir my beste avise 
Ye sett it nought, but make ther-of a game. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed.'Fufnivall), p. 59. 
She had all the talents which qualified her to play on 
his feelings, to make game nf his scruples, to set before 
him in a strong light the difficulties and dangers into which 
he was running headlong. Macaulay, Hist. Eng. , vi. 
II. a. 1. Of or belonging to such animals as 
game, 
Capitollne game-cock (gam'kok), n. 
A cock bred from a game-preserve (gam'pre-zerv'), n. A park 
fighting stock or strain ; a cock bred and trained or tract of land stocked with game preserved 
for fighting purposes. for sport. 
"Every year," says Fitzstephen, "on the morning of game-preserver (gam'pre-zer"ver), H. In Eng- 
Shrove Tuesday, the school-boys of the city of London land, a landowner or lessee of game who strictly 
iTua^.^^"^:^^ ^serves it for his own spoS or profit, ofteri 
themselves with seeing them fight." to the injury of the neighboring farmers, whose 
Simtt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 375. crops are subject to its depredations. 
game-egg (gam ' eg), n. An egg laid by a gamesome (gam'sum), a. [< ME. gamsum (= 
game-fowl, or from which a game-cock maybe J-0^1. gamansamr; cf. OHG. gamansamo, adv., 
gamesomely), < game 1 + -some.] Sportive; 
hatched. 
game-fish (gam'fish), n. Any fish capable of 
affording sport to the angler, as the salmon, 
trout, bass, and many others; especially, a 
gamy food-fish. 
A game-fish is a choice fish, a fish not readily obtained 
by wholesale methods at all seasons of the year, nor con- 
stantly to be had in the market aflsh, furthermore, which 
has some degree of intelligence and cunning, and which 
matches its own wits against those of the angler. 
Ooode, American Fishes (1887), p. xiv. 
>ul), n. A specimen of one 
of the hen classed as games, 
'ful), . [< game 1 , n., + -ful.] 
or games ; sportive. 
Which will make tedious years seem gameful to me. 
Middletm, Chaste Maid, iii. 3. 
2. Pull of game, or animals of the chase. 
Thy long discourse . . . 
Of gamejull parks, of meadowes fresh, ay spring-like 
pleasant fields. Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 290. 
Ye vigorous swains ! while youth ferments your blood, 
And purer spirits swell the sprightly flood, 
Now range the hills, the gameful woods be: 
~ ame f ow i 
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game 1 
playful; frolicsome. 
I write from the fire-side of my parlour, and in the noise 
of three gamesome children. Donne, Letters, xxviii. 
The beasts grow gamesome, and the birds they sing. 
Thou art my sun, great God ! Quartet, Emblems, v. 12. 
To whom thus Belial, in like gamesome mood. 
Hilton, P. L., vi. 620. 
Then ran she, game-some as the colt, 
And livelier than a lark 
She sent her voice thro' all the holt 
Before her, and the park. 
Tennyson, Talking Oak. 
1. gamesomely (gam'sum-li), adv. Sportively; 
playfully, 
gamesomeness (gam'sum-nes), n. The quality 
of being gamesome ; playfulness, 
gamester (gam'ster), . [< game 1 + -ster.~\ 1. 
One who games ; a person addicted to gambling ; 
beset. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 95. 
are hunted as game : as game animals ; a game game-gallt, . A satirical retort. Nares. 
pie. 2. Having a plucky spirit, like that of a Shortly after this quipping game-gall, etc. 
game-cock; courageous; unyielding: as, to die Holinshed, Chron., 1577. 
game. game-hawk (gam'hak), n. The peregrine fal- 
Why, would you be con, Faleo peregrinus : so called generally in 
A gallant, ****jSSSf a**** iii. 2. Scotland > "%* Py the " gSme"-that 
T . ,. is, grouse and ptarmigan. 
thedSX"'' ' ' Ifeluhatlc ldh ''~ gamekeeper (gSm'S^pte),,,. Onewhohasthe 
Governor Butler was game on the Boston Normal Art kee P in g and guarding of game ; one who is em- 
ployed to look after animals kept for sport in 
parks or covers, and to protect them from 
poachers. 
As I and my companions 
Were setting of a snare, 
The game-keeper was watching us, 
For him we did not care. 
'Tit my Delight of a Shiny Night (song). 
game-law (gam'la), . A law enacted for the 
preservation of the animals called game, by re- 
stricting the seasons and the manner in which 
they may be taken : generally in the plural. 
This early game-law [concerning the keeping of a dog] 
was primarily intended to stop the meetings of labourers 
School question to the death. 
Jour, of Education, XVIII. 320. 
3. Having the spirit or will to do something ; 
equal to some adventure or exploit : as, are you 
game for a run or a swim? [Slang.] 
"I suppose you really wish to find out the truth?" 
" Yes " said Teddy, firmly, "I do." " And you are game 
to go?" " Ye-es," less assured. " Yes ; game to go. 
L. B. Walford, The Baby's Grandmother. 
For I am game to marry thee 
Quite reg'lar, at St. George's. 
W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads. 
To die game. See def. 2, and diet. 
game 1 (gam), v. ; pret. and pp. gamed, ppr. 
gaming. [< ME. gamen, gomen, shorter form of 
gamenen, gomenen, < AS. gamcnian, game, play, 
= Icel. gamna, amuse, divert; from the noun. 
Cf. gamble 1 , v.] I. intrans. If. To play at any 
sport or diversion. 
Glad and blithe hi weren alle 
That weren with hem in the halle, 
And pleide and gamenede ech with other. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 52. 
2. To gamble ; play for a stake, prize, or wager 
with cards, dice, balls, etc., according to cer- 
tain rules. See gaming. 
Avarice itself does not calculate strictly when it games. 
Burke. 
'Tis great pity he's so extravagant, . . . and games so 
deep. Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 2. 
3f. To be glad; rejoice; receive pleasure : some- 
times used impersonally with the dative. 
God lovede he best with al his hoole herte 
At alle tymes, thogh him gamede or smerte. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 534. 
II. trans. To stake or lose at play ; gamble 
(away). [Rare.] 
It is for fear of losing the inestimable treasure we ha' 
and artificers, and has little permanent importance be- 
sides. Stubbs, Const. Hist., 472. 
a " [< ga *> "" + ' 
a gambler. 
The losing gamester shakes the box in vain, 
And bleeds, and loses on, in hopes to gain. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
A fighting gamester is only a pickpocket with the cou- 
rage of a highwayman. Steele, Tatler, No. 25. 
2f. A merry, frolicsome person. 
You are a merry gamester, 
My lord Sands. Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 4. 
Such petulant, jeering gamesters, that can spare 
No argument or subject from their jest. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
You have another gamester, I perceive by you ; 
You durst not slight me else. 
Fletcher, Wife for a Month, i. 1. 
3. One who competes at athletic games. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
The weapon [in the game of back-sword] is a good stout 
ash-stick with a large basket handle, heavier and some- 
what shorter than a common single-stick. The players 
are called "old gamesters " why, I can't tell you and 
their object is simply to break one another's heads : for 
the moment that blood runs an inch anywhere above the 
eyebrow, the old gamester to whom it belongs is beaten 
and has to stop. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 2. 
4f. A swan-keeper. 
The keeper who looked after them [a game of swans] 
was the gamester. Encyc. Brit., XI. 701. 
5f. A prostitute. 
She's impudent, my lord ; 
And was a common gamester to the camp. 
Shak., All's Well, v. 3. 
gamestress (gam'stres), n. [< game 1 + -stress.] 
A female gambler. Davies. 
To two characters, hitherto thought the most contradic- 
tory, the sentimental and the flirting, she unites yet a 
third ; . . . this, I need not tell you, is that of a game- 
stress. Miss Burney, Camilla, x. 5. 
Hav- 
conjugating; 
that I do not venture to game it out of my hands for the gamene (ga-men 
gameless 
Destitute 
Gamelion (ga-me'li-on), n. 
called because it was the fashionable time for 
weddings, < yapr/Mof, pertaining to a wedding, 
< yauuv, marry. An older name was \r/vaiuv. ] ., , 
The seventh month of the Attic year, it con- gametal (gam'e-tal), a. [< gamete + -al.] H 
sisted of thirty days, and corresponded to the latter half ;,, thn p?,.,, n ,,tBr of Wrneto- /.r,n-ii,ioti 
of January and the first part of February. ^ ' ~ jl^ gamete , conjugatl 
gamelyt, a. [ME. gameliche (= OHG. gamanlih, 
MHG. gdmelich, gemelich) ; < game 1 , n., + -ly 1 .] 
Sportive; lively; joyful. ' 
gamely (gam'li), adv. [< ME. gamely, gamliche, produ 
< AS. gamenlice (= MHG. gemeliclte), 'joyfully, 
< gamen, sport, joy: see game 1 , n., and -ly?.] gametangium (gam-e-tan-jl'um), n.; pi. game- 
lf. Gaily; joyfully. tangia (-&). [NL. , < Gr. yaue ry, a wif e, yauer^ , 
Thenne watg Gawan ful glad, & gomenly he lajed. 
Sir Oawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1079. 
2. In a game or plucky manner. 
Either gamliche gan grethe other gailiche ther-inne. 
William ofPalerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2591. 
gament, n. and v. See game 1 and gammon 1 . 
The presence of the reproductive elements exerts a 
constant stimulus upon the brain cells, which causes them 
to generate characteristic dreams, that in turn react to 
ce expulsion of the gametal cells. 
J. Nelson, Amer. Jour. Psycho!., I. 390. 
a husband (see gamete), + ayyelav, a vessel.] 
A cell or organ in which gametes are con- 
tained. 
In Acetabularia the whole of the protoplasm of the 
gametangium is not used up in the formation of the gam- 
etes. Encyc. Brit., XX. 427. 
. , 1'),. Madder dried and ground gamete (gam'et), n. [<Gr. 70/^777, a wif e,}a//r-, 
urAre, Ref. of Representation, into powder, without removing its outer cov- a husband, < yauetv, marry, < ydfioc,, marriage.] 
game 2 (gam), a. [A dial, form of cam 1 , crook- ering. McElrath, Com. Diet. 
, , . 
In 6 W., a propagative protoplasmic body which 
ed. Cf. gamb, dial, gamble, a leg, from the same gameness (gam'nes), n. The quality of being unites with a similar or dissimilar body to form 
ult. source.] Crooked; lame: as, a game leg. game or brave; courage; pluckiuess. 
[Slang.] 
Warrington burst out laughing, said that Bacon had (tot 
the game chair, and bawled out to Pen to fetch a sound 
one from his bedroom. Thackeray, Pendennis, xli. 
game-bag (gam'bag), . A bag for holding the 
game killed by a sportsman. 
There was no doubt about his gameness. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xxiv. 
The over-preservation of the red deer has caused them 
to degenerate, and much of their hardihood and gameness 
is being lost, besides which they are much smaller than 
formerly, though considerably more numerous 
W. W. Oreener, The Gun, p. 509. 
a spore, called a zygote, the latter being either a 
zygospore or an oospore. Mobile gametes re- 
sembling zoospores are called planogametes or 
zoogametes. 
The two cells which conjugate to form it [a zygospore] 
are spoken of as gametes planogametes when they pos- 
sess cilia, aplanogametes when they do not. 
Encyc. Brit., XX. 525. 
