Definition of game

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Game (v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

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Coursing :: Coursing (n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
Stock :: Stock (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank..
Quadrille :: Quadrille (n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded..
Bard :: Bard (v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
Catstick :: Catstick (n.) A stick or club employed in the game of ball called cat or tipcat.
Oppressive :: Oppressive (a.) Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law..
Loo :: Loo (n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo..
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..
Hazarder :: Hazarder (n.) A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.
Roulette :: Roulette (n.) A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game..
Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Allfours :: Allfours () A game at cards, called High, Low, Jack, and the Game..
Stalk :: Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game..
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led..
Kitcat :: Kitcat (n.) A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat..
Gout :: Gout (n.) A constitutional disease, occurring by paroxysms. It consists in an inflammation of the fibrous and ligamentous parts of the joints, and almost always attacks first the great toe, next the smaller joints, after which it may attack the greater articulations. It is attended with various sympathetic phenomena, particularly in the digestive organs. It may also attack internal organs, as the stomach, the intestines, etc..
Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..
Trapstick :: Trapstick (n.) A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg..
Chase :: Chase (v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt..
Marble :: Marble (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles..
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