| GAME | immunoglobulins G, A, M, and E |
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| FALG | fowl antimouse lymphocyte globulin |
| FAV | facio-auriculovertebral [sequence]; feline ataxia virus; floppy aortic valve; fowl adenovirus |
| FC | fasciculus cuneatus; fast component [of a neuron]; febrile convulsions; feline conjunctivitis; ferri... |
| FGG | fibrinogen gamma; focal global glomerulosclerosis; fowl gamma-globulin |
| FPV | A/fowl plague virus |
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| NFM | Northern fowl mites |
| rFPV | Recombinant fowl poxviruses |
| FAV | fowl adenovirus |
| game fowl | <zoology> A handsome breed of the common fowl, remarkable for the great courage and pugnacity of the males. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| game | 1. Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. "We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game." (Shak) 2. A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. "But war's a game, which, were their subject wise, Kings would not play at." (Cowper) Among the ancients, especially the Greeks and Romans, there were regularly recurring public exhibitions of strength, agility, and skill under the patronage of the government, usually accompanied with religious ceremonies. Such were the Olympic, the Pythian, the Nemean, and the Isthmian games. 3. The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. "Talk the game o'er between the deal." (Lloyd) 4. That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game. 5. In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest. 6. A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. "Your murderous game is nearly up." (Blackw. Mag) "It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack." (Saintsbury) 7. Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table. "Those species of animals . . . Distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game." (Blackstone) Confidence game. See Confidence. To make game of, to make sport of; to mock. Origin: OE. Game, gamen, AS. Gamen, gomen, play, sport; akin to OS, OHG, & Icel. Gaman, Dan. Gammen mirth, merriment, OSw. Gamman joy. Cf. Gammon a game, Backgammon, Gamble. 1. To rejoice; to be pleased; often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. "God loved he best with all his whole hearte at alle times, though him gamed or smarte." (Chaucer) 2. To play at any sport or diversion. 3. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble. Origin: OE. Gamen, gameen, to rejoice, AS. Gamenian to play. See Game. 1. Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. "I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death." (W. Irving) 2. Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting. Game bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken. Game bird, any bird commonly shot for food, especially. Grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns. Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock. Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game for food or for sport. Game preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. To be game. To show a brave, unyielding spirit. To be victor in a game. To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to die fighting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| game theory | A mathematical theory that deals with action in a conflict situation as if it were a game in which each player seeks to maximise his opponent's losses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea fowl | <ornithology> Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dorking fowl | <zoology> One of a breed of large-bodied domestic fowls, having five toes, or the hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table. Origin: From the town of Dorking in England. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fowl | Instead of the pl. Fowls the singular is often used collectively. [OE. Foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, AS. Fugol; akin to OS. Fugal D. & G. Vogel, OHG. Fogal, Icel. & Dan. Fugl, Sw. Fogel, fagel, Goth. Fugls; of unknown origin, possibly by loss of l, from the root of E. Fly, or akin to E. Fox, as being a tailed animal. 1. Any bird; especially, any large edible bird. "Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air." (Gen. I. 26) "Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not." (Matt. Vi. 26) "Like a flight of fowl Scattered by winds and high tempestuous gusts." (Shak) 2. Any domesticated bird used as food, as a hen, turkey, duck; in a more restricted sense, the common domestic cock or hen (Gallus domesticus). Barndoor fowl, or Barnyard fowl, a fowl that frequents the barnyard; the common domestic cock or hen. To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc. "Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl." (Blackstone) Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds. Origin: Fowled; Fowling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fowl cholera | A destructive disease of domestic fowls caused by Pasteurella multocida. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fowl diphtheria | An infection by the fowlpox virus in which tracheal involvement is especially severe. See: fowlpox. Synonym: fowl diphtheria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fowl erythroblastosis | <veterinary> An expression of disease of the avian leukosis-sarcoma complex; characterised by severe anaemia and large numbers of erythroblasts in the blood; chickens are most susceptible but fatal natural infections have been reported in guinea fowl. Synonym: fowl erythroblastosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fowl erythroblastosis virus | avian leukosis-sarcoma complex |
| fowl leukosis | A group of transmissible, virus-induced diseases of chickens, characterised by proliferation of immature erythroid, myeloid, or lymphoid cells. It includes both leukaemic and solid-tumour forms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fowl lymphomatosis | avian lymphomatosis |
| fowl lymphomatosis virus | avian leukosis-sarcoma complex |
| fowl myeloblastosis virus | avian leukosis-sarcoma complex |
| fowl neurolymphomatosis virus | The herpesvirus that causes avian lymphomatosis (Marek's disease); is distinct from those causing other forms of leukosis. Synonym: avian lymphomatosis virus, fowl neurolymphomatosis virus, Marek's disease virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fowl paralysis | See: avian lymphomatosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| game fowl | any of several breeds reared for cock-fighting |
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