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Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. [Colloq.]

A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males.

The male game fowl.

Full of game or games.

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

Destitute of game.

In a plucky manner; spiritedly.

Endurance; pluck.

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

A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.

which unites with another of like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot., gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore. The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male) and egg (female); their union is called fertilizat…

s, that generation or phase which bears sex organs. In the lower plants, as the algæ, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.…

A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

A nonmotile gamete, found in certain lower algæ.

The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

A first game; first plan. [Obs.] Whitlock.

to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.

Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.

An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

A game arranged as a test of superiority; also, one of a series of such games.