*ames*

n. 1. American sign language. [ An acronym which is spelled and pronounced as a simple word ]
Syn. -- American sign language [ PJC ]

n. (Eccl.) Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Anam, to southeastern Asia. -- n. A native of Anam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Assam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Embryology) the area of the mesoderm that forms the notochord. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Genetics) of, pertaining to, or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene, when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three. If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three, the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order ("frame") to be correctly translated into protein; in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene. [ PJC ]

a. Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron.

-- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Game + -ster. ] 1. A merry, frolicsome person. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. [ 1913 Webster ]

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A prostitute; a strumpet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, a long Babylonian epic written in cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is probably the first written story still in existence. A longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12 clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C. The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni. [ PJC ]

☞ The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)

and

Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)

{ } n. [ AS. hāmsōcn. See Home, and Seek. ] (Scots Law) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. 1. William James, an American psychologist and philosopher (1842-1910). He was the brother of Henry James.
Syn. -- William James. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Henry James, an American novelist and critic, born 1843, died 1916. He was the brother of William James.
Syn. -- Henry James. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. Saint James the Apostle, a disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of The Epistle of James in the New Testament.
Syn. -- Saint James, St. James, Saint James the Apostle. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. The James River, a tributary of the Missouri River.
Syn. -- James River. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of xerophytic ferns of South America.
Syn. -- genus Jamesonia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Prof. Jameson, of Edinburgh. ] (Min.) A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, an English physician; -- called also fever powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrup. of James. ] A footman; a flunky. [ Slang, Eng. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ F. lame a thin plate, L. lamina. ] (Armor) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n., pl. of Madame and Madam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For name's sake; i. e., one named for the sake of another's name. ] One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Greek Antiq.), The greatest of the national festivals of the ancient Greeks, consisting of athletic games and races, dedicated to Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four years at Olympia, and continuing five days. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896. There are now two sets of modern Olympic games, the summer games and the winter games. Both had been held every four years, in the same year, but in 1998 for the first time the winter games began to be held two years after the summer games, though each series is still held only once every four years. The number and types of sports contests held at the olympics has greatly expanded from the original number. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Siam, its native people, or their language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or inhabitant of Siam; pl., the people of Siam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. sing. The language of the Siamese. [ 1913 Webster ]