Definition of play

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Play (n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Displayer :: Displayer (n.) One who, or that which, displays..
Plucky :: Plucky (superl.) Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race..
Manifest :: Manifest (v. t.) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit..
Dandle :: Dandle (v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant..
Piping :: Piping (v.) Playing on a musical pipe.
Twiddle :: Twiddle (v. t.) To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key..
Faro :: Faro (n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack..
Crowd :: Crowd (n.) An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow..
Outthrow :: Outthrow (v. t.) To excel in throwing, as in ball playing..
Pedantize :: Pedantize (v. i.) To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Tole :: Tole (v. t.) To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait..
Splayfoot :: Splayfeet (pl. ) of Splayfoo.
Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke
Byplay :: Byplay (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds..
Punnet :: Punnet (n.) A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers..
Stylist :: Stylish (a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner..
Merils :: Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris..
Bank :: Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw..
Kent Bugle :: Kent bugle () A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle..
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