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Having three sorts of flowers in the same head, -- male, female, and hermaphrodite, or perfect, flowers.

The act of marrying, or the state of being married, three times; also, the offense of having three husbands or three wives at the same time.

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

A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Cross fertilization.

Of or pertaining zoögamy.

The sexual reproduction of animals.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

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 kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

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

of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

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.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

In honor of Apollo; as, the Apollinarian games.