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n.
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance.
n.
A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.
n.
A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
n.
A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
v. t.
To get an equivalent or compensation for; as, to recoup money lost at the gaming table; to recoup one's losses in the share market.
n.
Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling.
v. t.
To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
v. t.
To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming.
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One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.
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Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
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The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.
v. t.
The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
n.
The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
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An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
v. t.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
n.
The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Game
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One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
v. t.
To lose or squander by gaming; -- usually with away.
v. t.
To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
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