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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 other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

Game"cock` (-kk`), n. (Zoˆl.) The male game fowl.

Game" fowl` (-foul`). (Zoˆl.) A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

Game"ful (-fl), a. Full of game or games.

Game"keep`er (-kp`r), n. One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

Game"less, a. Destitute of game.

Game"ly, adv. In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

Game"ness, n. Endurance; pluck.

Game"some (?), a. Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak.

Gladness of the gamesome crowd.

Byron.

-- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.

Game"ster (?), n. [Game + - ster.] 1. A merry, frolicsome person. [Obs.] Shak.

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

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Shak.

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

Gam"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; marriage.] (Biol.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

||Gam"in (?), n. [F.] A neglected and untrained city boy; a young ||street Arab.

In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.'

L. Oliphant.

Gam"ing (?), n. The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

Gam"ma (?), n. The third letter (, γ = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.

Gam*ma"di*on (?), n. A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

Gam"mer (gm"mr), n. [Possibly contr. fr. godmother; but prob. fr. grammer for grandmother. Cf. Gaffer.] An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

Gam"mon (-mn), n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.] The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

Gam"mon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gammoned (-mnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. [1913 Webster]

Gam"mon, n. [See 2d Game.] 1. Backgammon.