Lot"to (?), n. [F. loto or It. lotto, prop., a lot; of German origin. See Lot.]
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.
[Often written
loto.]
© Webster 1913.