gambit (gambit)

[F. gambit, a gambit, jambet, a tripping of the legs, a fent, sudden attack, faire le jambet, or jamber, trip the legs, make a feint, deceive), P-KB3; 3 takes P.- Danish gambit, a development of the Center gambit (see above) by 3 P-QB 3.Evans gambit. IP-K 4, P-K 4; 2 2 Kt-KB 3, Kt-QB3;3B-B4, B-B4; 4P-QKt 4. See above.Greco counter-gambit. 1P-K4, P-K4; 2 Kt-KB3, P-KB 4.- Kieseritzki gambit. Same as Allgaier gambit (see above), except that the knight is played to instead of Kt 5 as the fifth move.- King's Bishop's gambit. 1 P-K 4, P-K 4; 2 P-KB 4, P takes P; 3B-B4.-King's gambit (proper). 1P-K4, P-K4; 2 P-KB 4.- Lopez gambit. 1P-K 4, P-K4; 2 B-B 4, B-B4; 3 Q-K 2, Kt-KB 3 (or P-Q 3, or Q-K 2); 4 P-B 4. - Muzio gambit. 1 P-K 4, P-K4;2P-KB4, P takes P; 3 Kt-KB 3, P - KKt 4; 4 B-B4, P-Kt 5; 5 Castles (or P-Q 4, or Kt-B 3), P takes Kt.- Queen's gambit. 1 P-Q 4, P-Q 4; 2P-QB4.-Queen's Pawn counter-gambit. 1P-K4, P-K4; 2 Kt-KB3, P-Q 4.- Salvio gambit. 1 to 4, same as Muzio gambit (see above); 5 Kt- K 5. - Scotch gambit. 1P-K 4, P-K 4; 2 Kt-KB3, Kt- QB 3; 3P-Q4. This derives its name from its being succe fully adopted by the Scotch players in the correspondence match between London and Edinburgh, 1822-28. - Steinitz gambit. 1 P-K 4, P-K 4; 2 Kt - QB 3, Kt-QB3; 3P-B 4, P takes P; 4P-Q4. gamblel (gam'bl), v.; pret. and pp. gambled, ppr.gambling. [Recent in record; At operas and plays parading, Mortgaging, gambling , masquerading. Burns, The Twa Dogs. IMG:content-2064.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-2065.png:[blocks in formation] gamble We make of life a gamble, and our institutions, our education, our literature, our ideals, and even our religion, all foster the spirit. N. A. Rev., CXLII. 395. When they take their "little all". out of the dull Three per Cents and put it into the Snowy Mountain Mines (Salted), which promise them thirty per cent., they are well aware that they are going in for a gamble. T. G. Bowles, Flotsam and Jetsam, xxxviii. gamble2 (gam'bl), n. [Dim. of gamb , or var. of the related gambrel .] A leg. [Prov. Eng.] gambler (gam'bler), n. One who gambles; one addicted to gaming or playing for money or other stakes; a gamester. A gambler's acquaintance is readily made and easily kept-provided you gamble too. Bulwer , Pelham, lxxiv. gambling-house (gam'bling-hous), n. A gaming-house; a house kept for the accommodation of persons who play at games of hazard for stakes.- Common gambling-house. See com mon. gamboge (gam-bōj' or -böj'), n. [Also written gambooge; a corruption (prob. originating in trade use) of what would reg. be camboge (NL. cambogia ), laurel-like tree of Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin China. (See cut under Garcinia.) It is of a rich brown ish-orange color, becoming brilliant yellow when powdered, forming a yellow emulsion with water, and having a disagreeable acrid taste. It is a drastic purgative, but is seldom used in medicine except in combination. It is mostly used as a piginent in water-color painting, producing transparent yellows, verging on brown in deep ma es. It is quite durable as a water-color, and fairly so in oil. Ceylon gamboge is obtained from G. Morella. False gamboge is a similar but inferior product of G. Xantho chymus. The so-called American gamboge is the juice of Vismia Guianensis and other species of South America, In doses of a dram or even le gamboge has produced death. IMG:content-2066.png:[blocks in formation] gambogian, gambogic (gam-bo'ji-an or -bö'jian, gam-bo'jik or -bö'jik), a. Pertaining to gamboge.