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.