Word Meanings - LOTTERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United

Additional info about word: LOTTERY

1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United States and of most of the States make lotteries illegal. 2. Allotment; thing allotted. Shak.

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• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• GAMING
  The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
• GAMOGENETIC
  Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
• GAMOMORPHISM
  That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
• GAMIC
  Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
• GAMBET
  Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
• GAMBA
  A viola da gamba.
• GAMMADION
  A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• GAMMER
  An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
• UNITARIANISM
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• BEARISH
  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris.
• GAMELESS
  Destitute of game.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• GAMBESON
  See GAMBISON
• GAMBISON
  A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. (more info) of German origin: cf. MHG. wambeis, G. wams doublet, fr. OHG. wamba,
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BEARWARD
  A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• MISOGAMIST
  A hater of marriage.
• MEGAMPERE
  A million ampères.
• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• AUTOGAMOUS
  Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
• AMALGAM
  A native compound of mercury and silver. (more info) 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things.
• SHIELD-BEARER
  Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield.
• VANTAGE GAME
  The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.
• PHAENOGAMIAN; PHAENOGAMIC
  See PHæNOGAMOUS
• DIGAMMA
  A letter ( Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W. (more info) Gram.)
• HETEROGAMY
  The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
• PHAENOGAMIA
  The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
• HOMOGAMY
  The condition of being homogamous.
• SEABEARD
  A green seaweed growing in dense tufts.
• AMALGAMA
  See BURKE