gamete (gamet)

[ The two cells which conjugate to form it [a zygospore] are spoken of as gametes - planogametes when they po e cilía, aplanogametes when they do not. Encyc. Brit ., XX. 525, IMG:content-2074.png:[blocks in formation] gamin (gam'in, F. pron. ga-man'), n. [F., of obscure origin.] A neglected and precociously knowing street-boy; an unruly boy running about at his own will. Also called street Arab. The word gamin was printed the first time, pa ed from the populace into literature, in 1834. It made its first appearance in a work called Claude Gueux: the The scandal was great, but the word has remained... gamin of Paris at the present day, like the Græculus of Rome in former time, is the youthful people with the wrinkle of the old world on its forehead. Victor Hugo , Les Misérables (trans.). It would seem as if there were a gamin element in the character of Irish men. Edinburgh Rev. , CLXIII. 460. gaming (gā'ming), n. [Verbal n. of game1 , v .] Playing for stakes; gambling. In law : (a) An agreement between two or more to risk money on a contest or chance of any kind where one must be a loser and the other a gainer. Caruthers , J. (b) More specifically, any sport or play carried on by two or more persons, depending on skill, chance, or the occurrence of an unknown future event, on the result of which some valuable thing is, without other consideration, to be transferred from the one to the other, or which in its course or consequences involves some other thing demoralizing or unlawful. Bishop . When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage;.. At gaming , swearing; or about some act That has no relish of salvation in 't. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 3. In the common usage of the two terms "betting" and " gaming ," they may sometimes be employed interchange ably, but not always. If two persons play at cards for money, they are said to be gambling or gaming; but they are gambling because they lay a wager or make a bet on the result of the game, and therefore to say they are betting is equally appropriate. If two persons lay a wager upon the result of a pending election, it will be said that they are betting, but not that they are gaming. There is no gaming in which the element of the wager is wanting, but there is betting which the term gaming is not commonly made to embrace. Justice T. M. Cooley .