gamnert

[Contr. of gamener, Some haue I sene euen in their last sicknes sit vp in their deathbed vnderpropped with pillowes, take their play-fellowes to them, and cumfort them selfe with cardes . as long as euer they might, til the pure panges of death pulled their hart fro their play, & put them in the case they could not reckon their game. And then ieft they their gamners , and slily slonk away: and long was it not ere they gasped vp the goste. Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 42. gamogastrous (gam-o-gas'trus), a. [ μος , marriage, + γαστήρ ( γαστρ- ), the womb.] In bot . , having only the ovaries united: applied to a compound pistil the styles and stigmas of which are free. The union in a syncarpous pistil is not always complete; it may take place by the ovaries alone, while the styles and stigmata remain free, the pistil being then gamogas trous . Encyc. Brit ., IV. 142.