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Definition of play

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Play (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes..

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Declamatory :: Declamatory (a.) Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style..

Plaything :: Plaything (n.) A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.

Playte :: Playte (n.) See Pleyt.

Playtime :: Playtime (n.) Time for play or diversion.

Gig :: Gig (n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

Trump :: Trump (v. i.) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

Jiggish :: Jiggish (a.) Playful; frisky.

Playwright :: Playwright (n.) A maker or adapter of plays.

Sport :: Sport (v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.

Check :: Check (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move..

Melopiano :: Melopiano (n.) A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.

Play :: Play (n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play..

Fioriture :: Fioriture (n. pl.) Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A game played with quoits.

Aerognosy :: Aerognosy (n.) The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature..

Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling..

Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.

Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To play at the game called curling.

Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..

Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol..