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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCK , a See also:

term for See also:good or See also:bad See also:fortune, the unforeseen or unrecognized causes which bring success or failure in any enter-prise, particularly used of the result of chances in See also:games of skill or See also:chance (see See also:PROBABILITY). The word does not occur in See also:English before the 16th See also:century. It was taken from the See also:Low Ger. luk, a shortened See also:form of geluk, cf. See also:Modern Ger. See also:Gluck, happiness, good fortune. The New English See also:Dictionary considers the word to have been introduced from the Low Countries as a gambling term. The ultimate origin is doubtful; it has been connected with the See also:German gelingen, to succeed (cf. Druck, pressure, from dringen), or with locken, to entice. At See also:Eden See also:Hall in See also:Cumberland, the seat of the See also:Musgrave See also:family, has been See also:long preserved a See also:vessel known as " the luck," supposed to be of Venetian or See also:Byzantine make, and dating from the loth century.

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