Definition of game

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Game (n.) 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..

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Retriever :: Retriever (n.) A dor, or a breed of dogs, chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded..
Open :: Open (v. i.) To bark on scent or view of the game.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter..
Langteraloo :: Langteraloo (n.) An old game at cards. See Loo (a).
Foul :: Foul (superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play..
Tredille :: Tredille (n.) A game at cards for three.
Solitaire :: Solitaire (n.) A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by jumping, as in draughts..
Put :: Put (v. i.) To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
Cover :: Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover..
Play :: Play (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes..
Billiards :: Billiards (n.) A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished..
Polo :: Polo (n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback..
Intercollegiate :: Intercollegiate (a.) Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc..
Jackal :: "Jackal (n.) One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated..
Athletics :: Athletics (n.) The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
Shinty :: Shinty (n.) A Scotch game resembling hockey; also, the club used in the game..
Ligamental :: Ligamental (a.) Alt. of Ligamentou.
Athlete :: Athlete (n.) One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
Umpire :: Umpire (v. t.) To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game..
Quarry :: Quarry (n.) A heap of game killed.
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