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Gambrel
() A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Gambrel
() To truss or hang up by means of a gambrel.
Gambroon
() A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining.
Game
() Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
Game
() Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
Game
() 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.
Game
() The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
Game
() 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.
Game
() In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
Game
() A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
Game
() Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
Game
() Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
Game
() Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
Gamed
() of Game
Gaming
() of Game
Game
() To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
Game
() To play at any sport or diversion.
Game
() 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.
Gamecock
() The male game fowl.
Game fowl
() A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.
Gameful
() Full of game or games.
Gamekeeper
() One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
Gameless
() Destitute of game.
Gamely
() In a plucky manner; spiritedly.
Gameness
() Endurance; pluck.
Gamesome
() Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry.
Gamester
() A merry, frolicsome person.
Gamester
() A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.
Gamester
() A prostitute; a strumpet.
Gamic
() Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
Gamin
() A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Gaming
() The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Gamma
() The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.
Gammadion
() A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
Gammer
() An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
Gammon
() The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Gammoned
() of Gammon
Gammoning
() of Gammon
Gammon
() To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Gammon
() Backgammon.
Gammon
() An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Gammon
() To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his \"men\" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
Gammon
() To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
Gammon
() To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Gammoning
() The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.
Gammoning
() The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
Gamogenesis
() The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.
Gamogenetic
() Relating to gamogenesis.
Gamomorphism
() That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
Gamopetalous
() Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.