[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

game \game\, a. cf. w. cam crooked, and e. gambol, n.
   crooked; lame; as, a game leg. colloq.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

game \game\, n. oe. game, gamen, as. gamen, gomen, play, sport;
   akin to os., ohg.,  icel. gaman, dan. gammen mirth,
   merriment, osw. gamman joy. cf. gammon a game,
   backgammon, gamble v. i.
   1. sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
      1913 webster

            we have had pastimes here, and pleasant game.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            but war's a game, which, were their subject wise,
            kings would not play at.              --cowper.
      1913 webster

   note: among the ancients, especially the greeks and romans,
         there were regularly recurring public exhibitions of
         strength, agility, and skill under the patronage of the
         government, usually accompanied with religious
         ceremonies. such were the olympic, the pythian, the
         nemean, and the isthmian games.
         1913 webster

   3. the use or practice of such a game; a single match at
      play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
      1913 webster

            talk the game o'er between the deal.  --lloyd.
      1913 webster

   4. 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.
      1913 webster

   5. card playing in some games, a point credited on the
      score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
      1913 webster

   6. a scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or
      purpose; method of procedure; projected line of
      operations; plan; project.
      1913 webster

            your murderous game is nearly up.     --blackw. mag.
      1913 webster

            it was obviously lord macaulay's game to blacken the
            greatest literary champion of the cause he had set
            himself to attack.                    --saintsbury.
      1913 webster

   7. animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats
      designed for, or served at, table.
      1913 webster

            those species of animals . . . distinguished from
            the rest by the well-known appellation of game.
                                                  --blackstone.
      1913 webster

   confidence game. see under confidence.

   to make game of, to make sport of; to mock. --milton.
      1913 webster
see also:
gammon backgammon gamble confidence game confidence to make game of 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

game \game\, a.
   1. having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock;
      ready to fight to the last; plucky.
      1913 webster

            i was game . . . .i felt that i could have fought
            even to the death.                    --w. irving.
      1913 webster

   2. of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game,
      or to the act or practice of hunting.
      1913 webster

   game bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game
      captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken.

   game 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.

   game egg, an egg producing a gamecock.

   game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking
      game for food or for sport.

   game preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of
      game on his estate with a view to its increase. eng.

   to be game.
      a to show a brave, unyielding spirit.
      b to be victor in a game. colloq.

   to die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the
      last; to die fighting.
      1913 webster
see also:
game bag game bird game egg game laws game preserver to be game 
to die game 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

game \game\ g=am, v. i. imp.  p. p. gamed g=amd; p.
   pr.  vb. n. gaming. oe. gamen, game?en, to rejoice, as.
   gamenian to play. see game, n.
   1. to rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in old english,
      impersonally with dative. obs.
      1913 webster

            god loved he best with all his whole hearte
            at alle times, though him gamed or smarte.
                                                  --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. to play at any sport or diversion.
      1913 webster

   3. 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 some other thing waged
      upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.
      1913 webster gamebag
see also:
gamed gaming game 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

game
     adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game
            leg" syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame
     2: willing to face danger syn: gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome,
         spirited, spunky
     n 1: a single play of a game; "the game lasted 2 hours"
     2: a contest with rules to determine a winner; "you need four
        people to play this game"
     3: an amusement or pastime; "they played word games"; "he
        thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty
        time"; "his life was all fun and games"
     4: animal hunted for food or sport
     5: the game equipment needed to play a game; "the child
        received several games for his birthday"
     6: your occupation or line of work; "he's in the plumbing
        game"; "she's in show biz" syn: biz
     7: games the score at a particular point or the score needed
        to win; "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game"
     8: the flesh of wild animals that is used for food
     9: a secret scheme to do something especially something
        underhand or illegal; "they concocted a plot to discredit
        the governor"; "i saw through his little game from the
        start" syn: plot, secret plan
     10: frivolous or trifling behavior; "for actors, memorizing
         lines is no game"; "for him, life is all fun and games"
     v : place a bet on; "which horse are you backing?"; "i'm betting
         on the new horse" syn: bet on, back, gage, stake,
          punt
see also:
crippled halt halting lame gamy gamey 
gritty mettlesome spirited spunky biz 
plot secret plan bet on back gage 
stake punt 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

595 moby thesaurus words for "game":
   animalia, boston, byzantine intrigues, earl of coventry, monopoly,
   olympic games, olympics, ping-pong, pit, polish bank, rugby,
   russian bank, scrabble, acquiescent, action, adventurous,
   agreeable, aim, alacritous, all fours, amenable, amusement,
   and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animality, approach,
   archery, ardent, arrangement, art, artful dodge, artifice, aspic,
   association football, attack, baccarat, backgammon,
   backstairs influence, bad, badminton, bagatelle, ball, bandy,
   banker, barbecue, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock,
   beano, beasts, beasts of field, beasts of prey, beasts of venery,
   bet, big game, big time, billiards, bingo, birds, blackjack, blind,
   blueprint, blueprinting, bluff, boiled meat, bold, bouilli, bout,
   bowling, bowls, boxing, brag, brave, bridge, brute creation,
   bulldoggish, business, butt, by-end, by-purpose, byword,
   byword of reproach, cabal, calculation, call, calling, canasta,
   career, career building, careerism, casino, cast lots, castrated,
   cat, catch, cattle, charades, charting, chase, checkers, chess,
   chicanery, civet, climbing, collusion, commerce, commit,
   competition, compliant, complicity, complot, conception, concours,
   confederacy, connections, connivance, consenting, conspiracy,
   content, contest, contract, contract bridge, contrivance,
   contriving, cooperative, counterplot, coup, courageous, covin,
   craft, crambo, cribbage, cricket, crippled, croquet, curling,
   cut lots, cut the cards, cute trick, daring, dauntless, deals,
   decathlon, deceit, deep-laid plot, derby, derision, design,
   destination, device, devices, devil-may-care, disabled, discus,
   disposed, disposition, dissemble, dissimulate, distraction,
   diversion, docile, dodge, domestic animals, dominoes,
   double-header, doubles, draughts, draw lots, draw straws, dupe,
   eager, ecarte, emasculated, encounter, end, end in view,
   engagement, engineering, enterprise, enthusiastic, envisagement,
   euchre, event, expedient, fain, fair game, fake, fakement, faro,
   fauna, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fearless,
   feign, feint, fencing, fetch, field, fight, figure of fun,
   figuring, finagling, final cause, finesse, fishing, five hundred,
   fives, flesh, flinch, fool, football, forcemeat, foresight,
   forethought, forward, foursome, frame-up, fright, frog, fun,
   fun and games, funmaking, furry creatures, gambit, gamble, games,
   games of chance, gamy, gazingstock, ghost, gimmick, gin, gin rummy,
   gliding, go, goal, goat, golf, good time, graphing, great fun,
   grift, gritty, ground plan, guidelines, gutsy, gutty, gymkhana,
   hachis, halt, halting, hamstrung, handball, handicapped,
   handicraft, hash, hearts, heroic, hide-and-seek, high old time,
   high time, high-spirited, hiking, hobbling, hockey, hopscotch,
   horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, idea, in the mind,
   in the mood, incapacitated, inclined, influence peddling,
   intention, intrepid, intrigue, intrigues, jacks, jackstones,
   jackstraws, jerky, jest, jestingstock, job, joint, joke, joust,
   jugged hare, jugglery, keno, kill, knavery, lacrosse, lame,
   lansquenet, laughingstock, laughs, lawn tennis, lay, layout,
   leapfrog, lifework, limping, line, line of business, line of work,
   lineup, little game, livestock, lobbying, lobbyism,
   long-range plan, loo, lot, lottery, lotto, lovely time, luging,
   machination, maimed, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, mapping,
   marbles, mark, master plan, match, match coins, matching,
   matrimony, meat, meet, meeting, menue viande, merels, method,
   methodology, metier, mettlesome, mince, minded, misrepresent,
   mission, mockery, monkey, monte, motorcycling, mountaineering,
   move, mumble-the-peg, mystery, napoleon, nervy, ninepins, number,
   object, object in mind, objective, occupation, old maid, ombre,
   operations research, organization, pall-mall, pallone, pastime,
   patience, pelota, pemmican, penny ante, pentathlon, pertinacious,
   picnic, picquet, plan, planning, planning function, play,
   play at dice, play games, play the ponies, play-off, pleasant time,
   pliant, plot, plotting, ploy, ploys, plucky, poker, polo, pool,
   position, post office, pot roast, practice, prearrangement,
   predisposed, prepared, pretend, prey, procedure, profession,
   program, program of action, prompt, prone, pursuit, pushball,
   put on, put-and-take, pyramids, quadrille, quarry, quick, quintain,
   quoits, race, racket, racquets, raffle off, rally, rationalization,
   ready, ready and willing, reason for being, receptive, recreation,
   red herring, red-blooded, regatta, rencontre, resolute, responsive,
   reverse, riding, rigging, roast, roller skating, ropes,
   rouge et noir, round, rounders, rowing, rum, rummy, runoff, ruse,
   sailing, sailplaning, sausage meat, schedule, schema, schematism,
   schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, schemery, schemes,
   scheming, scrapple, sculling, set, setup, seven-up, shift, shinny,
   shoot craps, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, singles, skat,
   skating, skeet, skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving,
   skittles, sledding, sleight, small game, snipsnapsnorum, snooker,
   snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball, solitaire,
   spavined, specialization, specialty, speculate, speculation,
   spirited, spiritful, sport, sports, spunky, squash, stake,
   stickball, stock, straight poker, stratagem, strategic plan,
   strategy, strings, stud poker, subterfuge, surfing, system,
   systematization, table tennis, tactic, tactical plan, tactics,
   target, teleology, tenacious, tennis, tenpins, tent pegging, test,
   tetherball, the big picture, the hunted, the picture, thirty-one,
   threesome, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilt, tilting, tipcat, tivoli,
   tobogganing, toss, tough, tournament, tourney, toy, tractable,
   trade, trapshooting, trial, trick, trickery, tug of war,
   twenty-one, twosome, ultimate aim, unafraid, undaunted, underplot,
   unflinching, valiant, valorous, venery, venison, viande, victim,
   vingt-et-un, vocation, volleyball, wager, walk, walk of life,
   water polo, waterskiing, way, web of intrigue, well-disposed,
   well-inclined, whist, wild animals, wildlife, wile, willed,
   willing, willinghearted, wily device, wire-pulling, wires, work,
   working plan, wrestling, zealous

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

game. birds and beasts of a wild-nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. 
bac. ab. h. t.; animals; ferae natural. 

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