Definition of play

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Play (v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin..

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Prince :: Prince (a.) The chief of any body of men; one at the head of a class or profession; one who is preeminent; as, a merchant prince; a prince of players..
Cricket :: Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket.
Splaymouthed :: Splaymouth (n.) A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision.
Fiddle :: Fiddle (n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Histrionicism :: Histrionicism (n.) The histronic art; stageplaying.
Flourish :: Flourish (v. i.) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion..
Stage :: Stage (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited..
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..
Mump :: Mump (v. i.) To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
Labradorite :: Labradorite (n.) A kind of feldspar commonly showing a beautiful play of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar..
Virginal :: Virginal (v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat..
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..
Protatic :: Protatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play; introductory.
Pan :: Pan (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented..
Luter :: Luter (n.) One who plays on a lute.
Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..
Bespeak :: Bespeak (n.) A bespeaking. Among actors, a benefit (when a particular play is bespoken.).
Sulphamate :: Sulphacid (n.) An acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids; -- called also sulphoacid. See the Note under Acid, n., 2..
Harlequinade :: Harlequinade (n.) A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.
Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..
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