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)

{ 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 ]