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Word Meanings - GAME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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  • GAYETY
    1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth;
  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • FROLICKY
    Frolicsome. Richardson.
  • PASTIME
    That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
  • DROOPINGLY
    In a drooping manner.
  • WANTONNESS
    The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • SPORTING
    Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
  • MERRYMAKING
    Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
  • SPORTIVE
    Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
  • RECREATION
    The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
  • SPORTAL
    Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
  • SPORTFUL
    1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
  • SPREE
    A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
  • SPORTER
    One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
  • SPORTLING
    A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
  • GAMBOL
    A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden. (more info) It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber:
  • FROLICFUL
    Frolicsome.
  • AMUSEMENT
    1. Deep thought; muse. Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood. 2. The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses;
  • MERRYMAKER
    One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • UNWEARY
    To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • TRANSPORTED
    Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
  • DISPORTMENT
    Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
  • TRANSPORT
    1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
  • LIFE-WEARY
    Weary of living. Shak.

 

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