Definition of play

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Play (n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute..

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Juggle :: Juggle (v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
Vaunt :: Vaunt (n.) A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag..
Rack :: Rack (a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc..
Tableman :: Tableman (n.) A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10..
Exciteful :: Exciteful (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players..
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen..
Show :: Show (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers)..
Quadrille :: Quadrille (n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded..
Play :: Play (v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball..
Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Play :: Play (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
Tag :: Tag (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched..
Treble :: Treble (a.) Playing or singing the highest part or most acute sounds; playing or singing the treble; as, a treble violin or voice..
Harlequin :: Harlequin (n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy..
Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc..
Shinney :: Shinney (n.) The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin.
Politize :: Politize (v. i.) To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head..
Outplay :: Outplay (v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball..
Costume :: Costume (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described..
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