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An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.

In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.

Like parchment.

One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoögametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algæ (Chlorophyceæ).

Play of children. Locke.

A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.

That which is excreted; excretion. [Obs.]

The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.

A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.]

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

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

In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.

iefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites. Milner.

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.