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At :: At (prep.) The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns..

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate..

Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.

Flaunt :: Flaunt (v. t.) To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..

Collusion :: Collusion (n.) A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.

Property :: Property (a.) All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

Bowing :: Bowing (n.) The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments.

Quintole :: Quintole (n.) A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

Monarchize :: Monarchize (v. i.) To play the sovereign; to act the monarch.

Counterturn :: Counterturn (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties..

Demonstrative :: Demonstrative (a.) Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative..

Piping :: Piping (n.) The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds, etc..

Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard)..

Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.

Quintette :: Quintette (n.) A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music..

Fumble :: Fumble (v. i.) To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.

Ruffian :: Ruffian (v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.

Bagatelle :: Bagatelle (n.) A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player..

Fence :: Fence (n.) Self-defense by the use of the sword; the art and practice of fencing and sword play; hence, skill in debate and repartee. See Fencing..

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