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Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.

Chancel :: Chancel (v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.

Percase :: Percase (adv.) Perhaps; perchance.

Sedilia :: Sedilia (n. pl.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.

Hazard :: Hazard (n.) A game of chance played with dice.

Luck :: Luck (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill..

Peradventure :: Peradventure (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.

Boom :: Boom (n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement; -- applied colloquially or humorously to market prices, the demand for stocks or commodities and to political chances of aspirants to office; as, a boom in the stock market; a boom in coffee..

Spigurnel :: Spigurnel (n.) Formerly the title of the sealer of writs in chancery.

Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..

Happily :: Happily (adv.) By chance; peradventure; haply.

Sort :: Sort (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

Rehear :: Rehear (v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery..

Chance :: Chance (n.) A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified..

Grace :: Grace (n.) The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery.

Perhaps :: Perhaps (adv.) By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.

Turn :: Turn (n.) Successive course; opportunity enjoyed by alternation with another or with others, or in due order; due chance; alternate or incidental occasion; appropriate time..

Hap :: Hap (n.) That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot..

Bechance :: Bechance (v. t. & i.) To befall; to chance; to happen to.

Significavit :: Significavit (n.) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church..

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