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ften used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Shak. Luck penny, a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. [Prov. Eng.] -- To be is luck, to receive some good, or to meet with s…

propitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid. Prayers made and granted in a luckless hour. Dryden. -- Luck"less*ly, adv. -- Lock"less*ness, n.

An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.

of dogs said to have been a cross between the sheep dog, greyhound, and spaniel. It hunts game silently, by scent, and is often used by poachers.

Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century. Thackeray.

Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.

may follow, but if meanwhile the host is bitten by a mosquito, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomach of the insect. These conjugate, the zygote thus produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoites, which, penetrating to the salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The…

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. Cotton.

One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

A contrivance or maneuvering to catch game illegally.

some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

march. Knolles. To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards.

One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one. When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore. Swift.

.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted. -- Match game, a game arranged as a test of superiority. -- Match plane (Carp.), either of the two planes used to shape the edges of boards which are joined by grooving and tonguing. -- Match plate (Founding), a board or plate on the opp…

A kind of game at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.