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A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden.

Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game. Shak.

Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.

Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

Trick; jest; sport. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. Pope. Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed. Gray.

An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] Mede.

A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [Prov. Eng.]

s acetic or carbolic acid. -- Glacial drift (Geol.), earth and rocks which have been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs; bowlder drift. -- Glacial epoch or period (Geol.), a period during which the climate of the modern temperate regions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphe…

To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc. Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

To make sport; to gibe; to sneer; to spend time idly. [Obs.] Shak.

A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs. 3. (Sport)

particularly that which is exquisitely relished; enjoyment. Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust. Pope.

rm used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back…

To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.

To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill. When I was seven or eight years of age, I began hauling all the wood used in the house and shops. U. S. Grant. To haul over the coals. See under Coal. -- To haul the wind (Naut.), to turn the head of the ship nearer to the point from which…

A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.

us. Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. Buckminster.