Gamin

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gamin \Gam"in\, n. [F.]
     A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
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           In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at
           the Chinaman.'                           --L. Oliphant.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gamin
       n : a homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the
           streets [syn: {street arab}, {throwaway}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "gamin":
     Arab, JD, beach bum, beachcomber, beggar, bo, brat, bum, bummer,
     dogie, elf, enfant terrible, gamine, guttersnipe, hobo,
     holy terror, homeless waif, idler, imp, juvenile delinquent,
     landloper, lazzarone, little monkey, loafer, losel, minx, monkey,
     mudlark, piker, puck, punk, punk kid, ragamuffin, ragman,
     ragpicker, rounder, ski bum, spoiled brat, stiff, stray,
     street Arab, street urchin, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman,
     tatterdemalion, tennis bum, tramp, turnpiker, urchin, vag,
     vagabond, vagrant, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel,
     whippersnapper
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GAMING. A contract between two or more persons by which they agree to play 
  by certain rules at cards, dice, or other contrivance, and that one shall be 
  the loser, and the other the winner. When considered in itself, and without 
  regard to the end proposed by the player's, there is nothing in it contrary 
  to natural equity, and the contract will be considered as a reciprocal gift, 
  which the parties make of the thing played for, under certain. conditions. 
       2. There are some games which depend altogether upon skill, others, 
  upon chance, and some others are of a mixed nature. Billiards is an example 
  of the first; lottery of the second; and backgammon of the last. 
       3. In general, at common law all games are lawful, unless some fraud 
  has been practiced, or such games are contrary to public policy. Each of the 
  parties to the contract must, 1. Have a right to the money or thing played 
  for. 2. He must have given his full and free consent, and not been entrapped 
  by fraud. 3. There must be equality in the play. 4. The play must be 
  conducted fairly. But even when all these rules have been observed, the 
  courts will not countenance gaming by giving too easy a remedy for the 
  recovery of money won at play. Bac. Ab. h. t. A. 
       4. But when fraud has been practiced, as in all other cases, the 
  contract is void and in some cases, when the party has been guilty of 
  cheating, by playing with false dice, cards and the like, he may be indicted 
  at common law, and fined and imprisoned, according to the heinousness of the 
  offence. 1 Russ. on Cr, 406. 
       5. Statutes have been passed in perhaps all the states forbidding 
  gaining for money, at certain games, and prohibiting the recovery of money 
  lost at such games. Vide Bac. Ab. h. t.; Dane's Ab. Index, h. t.; Poth. 
  Traite du Jeu; Merlin, Repertoire, mot Jeu; Barbeyrac, Traite du Jeu, tome 
  1, p. 104, note 4; 1 P. A. Browne's Rep. 171: 1 Overt. R. 360; 3 Pick. 446; 
  7 Cowen, 496; 1 Bibb, 614; 1 Miss. 635; Mart. & Yerg. 262; 1 Bailey, 315; 6 
  Rand. 694; 8 Cowen, 139; 2 Blackf. 251; 3 Blackf. 294; and Stakeholder; 
  Wagers.