Definition of play

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Play (n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game..

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Bandy :: Bandy (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Skill :: Skill (n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Displayer :: Displayer (n.) One who, or that which, displays..
Play :: Play (n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game..
Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
Organ :: Organ (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ..
Single :: Single (n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
Pitcher :: Pitcher (n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman..
Tabor :: Tabor (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum..
Ostentation :: Ostentation (n.) The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.
Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc..
Plectrum :: Plectrum (n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments..
Mall :: Mall (n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
Misdeal :: Misdeal (n.) The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
Gambol :: Gambol (v. i.) To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs..
Prelude :: Prelude (v. i.) To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude.
Fives :: Fives (n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game..
Rollic :: Rollic (v. i.) To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking..
Player :: Player (n.) A gamester; a gambler.
Tongue :: Tongue (v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..
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