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GAMES
Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Lord Gamesha
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of ground used for playing games, from Middle English pleye ‘play’ + sted(e) ‘place’, hence ‘place for play or sport’. In some cases it may be a habitational name from Chapel Plaster in Box, Wiltshire. Compare Plaster 2.
Surname or Lastname
Spanish
Spanish : variant of Gámez (see Gamez).English : variant of Game.
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Boy/Male
Tamil
Its biblical name
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess Durga
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit, Swahili
Gift from God
Boy/Male
Latin
Fidde.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places in North Yorkshire, one called Crakehall and the other Crakehill, both from Old Norse kráka ‘crow’ (or Old English craca ‘crake’) + Old English halh ‘recess’. This form of the surname is now rare in England.
Boy/Male
Indian
King of Arya; Long Life
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Blue Eyed Friend
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Crowned.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Shadow or Shade
Male
Greek
(Αθος) Contracted form of Greek Athanasios, ATHOS means "immortal." In mythology, this is the name of an ancient mountain god, one of the Gigantes. It is also the name of a mountain in Greece containing an ancient monastic site.
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n.
A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
a.
Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
n. pl.
Festival games celebrated once in three years.
n.
Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
a.
Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.
n.
In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist.
n.
In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton.
n.
A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
n.
A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games.
v. t.
In games of chance and skill: To defeat (an opponent) (as in cards) so that he fails to gain a point, or (in checkers) to get a king.
n.
A counter used in card playing and other games.
n.
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
n.
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
n.
A judge or umpire in games or combats.
superl.
In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed.
n.
That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank.
n.
The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.
n.
The games of backgammon and of draughts.
n.
One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
v. t.
A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.