"Game" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
1. Birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Bacon, Abr. See Coolidge v. Choate, 11 Metc. (Mass.) 79. The term is said to include (in England) hares, pheasauts, partridges, gronse, heath or moor game, black game, and bus-tards. Brown. See 1 & 2 wm. IV. c. 32
In some games, a point credited on the score to the player
whose cards counts up the highest.
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.
Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock;
ready to fight to the last; plucky.
Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
The use or practice of such a game; a single match at
play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats
designed for, or served at, table.
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.
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 rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English,
impersonally with dative.
Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
To play at any sport or diversion.
A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or
purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan;
project.
Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or
to the act or practice of hunting.
The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.
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