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

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

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