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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Goose :: Goose (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted..
Ligament :: Ligament (n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints..
Closh :: Closh (n.) The game of ninepins.
Foiling :: Foiling (n.) The track of game (as deer) in the grass.
Bunko :: Bunko (n.) A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery..
Gamekeeper :: Gamekeeper (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve..
Touch :: Touch (n.) A boys' game; tag.
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..
Fourhanded :: Fourhanded (a.) Requiring four hands or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
Hepatorenal :: Hepatorenal (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament..
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward..
Kriegsspiel :: Kriegsspiel (n.) A game of war, played for practice, on maps..
Stalking-horse :: Stalking-horse (n.) A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill..
Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle..
Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..
Venison :: Venison (n.) Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively..
Set :: Set (v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs..
Ante :: Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins..
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist..
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