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Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. i.) To play the mountebank.

Grace :: Grace (n.) A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops..

Parade :: Parade (v. t.) Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.

Bayonet :: Bayonet (n.) A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery..

Waxwork :: Waxwork (n.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds..

Dazzle :: Dazzle (v. t.) To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind.

Rounder :: Rounder (n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football..

Rebec :: Rebec (n.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow..

Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

Comedy :: Comedy (n.) A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy..

Tag :: Tag (v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play..

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

Frolic :: Frolic (a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry..

Underplay :: Underplay (v. i.) To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part..

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

Sycophant :: Sycophant (v. t.) To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.

Wait :: Wait (v. i.) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen..

Stump :: Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out..

Pomp :: Pomp (n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

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