Definition of sport

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Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6..

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Jest :: "Jest (n.) Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i..
Retrieve :: Retrieve (n.) The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term.
Falconer :: Falconer (n.) A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To trifle.
Disporting :: Disporting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dispor.
Passport :: Passport (n.) Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water..
Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..
Water Carriage :: Water carriage () Transportation or conveyance by water; means of transporting by water.
Glaciate :: Glaciate (v. t.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc..
Visa :: Visa (v. t.) To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise..
Sport :: Sport (n.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting..
Course :: Course (v. i.) To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire..
Jocund :: Jocund () Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive.
Play :: Play (v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks..
Disport :: Disport (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Mimic :: Mimic (n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon..
Sportula :: Sportulae (pl. ) of Sportul.
Lation :: Lation (n.) Transportation; conveyance.
Rapt :: Rapt (v. t.) To transport or ravish.
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invaded country for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc..
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