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Game

includes hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath-game, or moorgame, black-game, and bustards. (Game Act, 1, 2, Will. IV.) (See Sporting Season.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Gallowglass
Gallus Numidicus (A)
Galore
Galvanism (g hard)
Galway Jury
Gam
Gama (g hard)
Gamaheu
Gamaliel
Gamboge
Game
Game
Game-leg
Game for a Spree
Game is not worth the Candle (The)
Game’s Afoot (The)
Gamelyn
Gammer (g hard)
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
Gammon (g hard)
Gammut, or Gamut (g hard)