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Agitato :: Agitato (a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner..

Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To spay; to castrate.

Cast :: Cast (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.

Hellenize :: Hellenize (v. i.) To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

Mum-chance :: Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.

Wittol :: Wittol (n.) A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest.

Enlay :: Enlay (v. t.) See Inlay.

Snapdragon :: Snapdragon (n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon..

Virginal :: Virginal (v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat..

Opalescent :: Opalescent (a.) Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

Ectoblast :: Ectoblast (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.

Hotcockles :: Hotcockles (n.) A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him..

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To trifle or play.

Stager :: Stager (n.) A player.

Dramatist :: Dramatist (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Paronomasia :: Paronomasia (n.) A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning..

Lord :: Lord (v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.

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