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(n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Lotto'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​l/lotto.html. 1828.
 
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