The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
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.
Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
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.
To play at any sport or diversion.
Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About
1. having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. i was gamei felt that i could have fought even to the death. irving.
2. of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken.
bird, any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. the term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns.
egg, an egg producing a gamecock.
laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game for food or for sport.
preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. [eng.]
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to be game
to make game of
to die game
to preserve game