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One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.

The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.

One who achieves; a winner.

n sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

are played in sequences upon the table, the one who first gets rid of his cards being the winner.

To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition; as, to gain a battle; to gain a case at law; to gain a prize.

n games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.

small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch. Lady --- has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch. Walpole. To leave one in the lurch. (a) In the game of cribbage, to leave one's adversary so far behind that the game is won before he has scored thirty-one. (b) To leave one behin…

A prize giving to the winner in a contest.

A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.

The winner of a prize.

s, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*n…

staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed.

The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of. In love, the victors from the vanquished fly; They fly that wound, and they pursue that die. Waller.