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game (the foll. are absolute meanings)
1. fun, sport LLL. V. ii. 155, 361 “pleasant game,” MND. I. i. 240 “As waggish boys in game” . . .
2. amorous play Troil IV. v. 63, Oth. II. iii. 19.
3. sport derived from the chase LLL. IV. ii. 174, 3H6 IV. v. 11.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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