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A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. [R.] Chaucer.

s, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. -- Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen…

A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.

A judge or umpire in games or combats.

Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.

ing form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.

l form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.

Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

See Cinch (the game).

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals.

pring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

their nature. -- Debt of honor, a debt contracted by a verbal promise, or by betting or gambling, considered more binding than if recoverable by law. -- Honor bright! An assurance of truth or fidelity. [Colloq.] -- Honor court (Feudal Law), one held in an honor or seignory. -- Honor point. (Her.) See Escutcheon. -…

The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind. [Obs.] Shak.

A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] Hop, skip (or step), and jump, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.

A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson.

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs. Shak.