Lottery: alternatives and connections

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of l…

Love making; a love affair; usually, an unlawful connection in love; a love intrigue; an illicit love affair.

The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.

A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the ch…

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the p…

A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form o…

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem;…

Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.

A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from…

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically…

the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribut…

the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribut…

To move; to come or go; literally, to draw one's self; -- with prepositions and adverbs; as, to draw away, to move off, esp. in racing…

To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fel…

Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.