Definition of game

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Game (v. i.) 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..

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Man :: Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played..
Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..
Pool :: Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table..
Faro :: Faro (n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack..
Salmis :: Salmis (n.) A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite..
Gamester :: Gamester (n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.
Buckshot :: Buckshot (n.) A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game..
Agonothete :: Agonothete (n.) An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
Fumette :: Fumette (n.) The stench or high flavor of game or other meat when kept long.
Sport :: Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked..
Intercarpal :: Intercarpal (a.) Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments..
Gameness :: Gameness (n.) Endurance; pluck.
Hurl :: Hurl (v. i.) To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.
Trapezoid :: Trapezoid (a.) Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle..
Athletic :: Athletic (a.) Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports..
Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny..
Troco :: Troco (n.) An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.
Bluff :: Bluff (v. i.) To act as in the game of bluff.
Bag :: Bag (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game..
Ligament :: Ligament (n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints..
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