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Inequality of surface, as of the ground in the game of bowls; unevenness. Shak.

In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.

A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it. Nares.

to both the sacrum and the hip; as, the sacrosciatic formina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and hip bone.

A ragout or partky roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

o) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid\'91.

y, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

A slight contest; a skirmish. See Skirmish. [Obs.] Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms. Spenser.

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

A fielder in a game for practice.

To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game. [Cant, U.S.]

does this town lokk! Walpole. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

n that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. -- Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. -- Secular music, any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.…

To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.

e spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter. Boyle.

ater by one than six; seven units or objects. Of every beast, and bird, and insect small, Game sevens and pairs. Milton.