Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GAL-VAN-OL'O-GIST, n.

One who describes the phenomena of galvanism.

GAL-VAN-OL'O-GY, n. [galvanism, and Gr. λογος, discourse.]

A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.

GAL-VA-NOM'E-TER, n. [galvanism, and Gr. μετρον, measure.]

An instrument or apparatus for measuring minute quantities of electricity, or the operations of galvanism. Ure.

GA-MASH'ES, n.

Short spatterdashes worn by plowmen. Shelton.

GAM-BA'DOES, n.

Spatterdashes. [It. gamba, the leg.]

GAM'BET, n.

A bird of the size of the greenshank, found in the Arctic sea, and in Scandinavia and Iceland. Pennant.

GAM'BIT, n.

A series of skillful moves in the game of chess.

GAM'BLE, v.i. [from game.]

To play or game for money or other stake.

GAM'BLE, v.t.

To gamble away, is to squander by gaming. Bankrupts or sots who have gambled or slept away their estates. Ames.

GAM'BLED, v. [pret. of Gamble.]

GAM'BLER, n.

One who games or plays for money or other stake. Gamblers often or usually become cheats and knaves.

GAM'BLING, ppr.

Gaming for money.

GAM-BOGE', n.

A concrete vegetable juice or inspissated sap, produced by the Hebradendron Cambogioides. It is brought in orbicular masses or cylindrical rolls, from Cambaja, Cambodja or Cambogia, in the East Indies, whence its name. It is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beautiful reddish yellow. It is used chiefly as a pigment. Taken internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic. Nicholson.

GAM'BOL, n.

A skipping or leaping about in frolick; a skip; a hop; a leap; a sportive prank. Dryden.

GAM'BOL, v.i. [Fr. gambiller, to wag the leg or kick, from It. gamba, the leg, Fr. jambe, Sp. gamba.]

1. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to leap; to play in frolick, like boys and lambs. Milton. Dryden.
2. To leap; to start. Shak.

GAM'BOL-ING, ppr.

Leaping; frisking; playing pranks.

GAM'BREL, n. [from It. gamba, the leg.]

The hind leg of a horse. Hence, in America, a crooked stick used by butchers. A hipped roof is called a gambrel-roof.

GAM'BREL, v.t.

To tie by the leg. Beaum.

GAME, n. [Ice. gaman; Sax. gamen, a jest, sport; gamian, to jest, to sport; It. giambare, to jest or jeer; W. camp, a feat, a game; campiaw, to contend in games. The latter seems to unite game with camp, which in Saxon and other northern dialects signifies a combat.]

1. Sport of any kind. Shak.
2. Jest; opposed to earnest; as, betwixt earnest and game. [Not used.] Spenser.
3. An exercise or play for amusement or winning a stake; as, a game of cricket; a game of chess; a game of whist. Some games depend on skill, others on hazard.
4. A single match at play. Addison.
5. Advantage in play; an, to play the game into another's hand.
6. Scheme pursued; measures planned. This seems to be the present game of that crown. Temple.
7. Field sports; the chase; falconry, &c. Shak. Waller.
8. Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, &c.
9. In antiquity, games were public diversions or contests exhibited as spectacles for the gratification of the people. These games consisted of running, leaping, wrestling, riding, &c. Such were the Olympic games, the Pythian, the Isthmian, the Nemean, &c. among the Greeks; and among the Romans, the Apollinarian, the Circensian, the Capitoline, &c. Encyc.
10. Mockery; sport; derision; as, to make game of a person.

GAME, v.i. [Sax. gamian.]

1. To play at any sport or diversion.
2. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest.
3. To practice gaming.

GAME'COCK, n.

A cock bred or used to fight; a cock kept for barbarous sport. Locke.

GAME'EGG, n.

An egg from which a fighting cock is bred. Garth.

GAME'FUL, a.

Full of game or games.

GAME'KEEP-ER, n.

One who has the care of game; one who is authorized to preserve beasts of the chase, or animals kept for sport. Blackstone.

GAME'LEG, a.

A lame leg.