Game: alternatives and connections

Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

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Bold; courageous; daring; intrepid; -- opposed to cowardly; as, a brave man; a brave act.

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Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

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Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

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To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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That which is laid, staked, or pledged, as between two parties, upon the event of a contest or any contingent issue; the act of giving such a pledge;…

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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

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The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for supe…

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To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.

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Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

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The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

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A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Flax; linen.

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Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an…

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The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

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To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.

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A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

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A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.

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Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge.

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Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

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of Bowl

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A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It…

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Tradition; occult doctrine. See Cabala

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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.

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To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.

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of Curl

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To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.

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To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

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The act of machinating.

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A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.

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A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given…

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been i…

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Beasts of the chase.

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Endurance; pluck.

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Endurance; pluck.

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Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

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Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

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One who wagers, or lays a bet.

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One who wagers, or lays a bet.

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of Set

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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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of Cripple

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A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperform…

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Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.

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Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.

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3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

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of Hail

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Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

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Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.

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A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

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To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.

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of Spirit

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Full of spunk; quick; spirited.

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A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support…

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