Definition of play

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

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Affectation :: Affectation (n.) An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
Taw :: Taw (n.) A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
Playing :: Playing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pla.
Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To display vaingloriously.
Buss :: Buss (n.) A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
Rocket :: Rocket (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display..
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate..
Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A short entertainment exhibited on the stage between the acts of a play, or between the play and the afterpiece, to relieve the tedium of waiting..
Camp :: Camp (n.) To play the game called camp.
Fool :: Fool (v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
Playwright :: Playwright (n.) A maker or adapter of plays.
Philosophate :: Philosophate (v. i.) To play the philosopher; to moralize.
Part :: Part (n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act..
Splayfoot :: Splayfoot (n.) A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled..
Handyy-dandy :: Handyy-dandy (n.) A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit..
Duke :: Duke (v. i.) To play the duke.
Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..
Deck :: Deck (v.) A pack or set of playing cards.
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..
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