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On :: On (prep.) Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind..

Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks..

Logodaedaly :: Logodaedaly (n.) Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words.

Playbill :: Playbill (n.) A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors..

Ante :: Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins..

Action :: Action (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.

Humstrum :: Humstrum (n.) An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

Merils :: Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris..

Dodger :: Dodger (n.) One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices..

Epilogue :: Epilogue (n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play..

Kindergarten :: Kindergarten (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden..

Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A game played with quoits.

Accordion :: Accordion (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds..

Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..

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

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Sharp :: Sharp (v. i.) To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.

Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.

Mallet :: Mallet (n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet..

Fifer :: Fifer (n.) One who plays on a fife.

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