Definition of play

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Play (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it..

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Ostentate :: Ostentate (v. t.) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
Leader :: Leader (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
Gypsy :: Gypsy (v. i.) To play the gypsy; to picnic in the woods.
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
Harlequin :: Harlequin (n. i.) To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
Ante :: Ante (n.) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins..
Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.
Playday :: Playday (n.) A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
Man :: Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played..
Showroom :: Showroom (n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed..
Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..
Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..
Display :: Display (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
Truancy :: Truancy (n.) The act of playing truant, or the state of being truant; as, addicted to truancy..
Pirate :: Pirate (v. i.) To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
Croquet :: Croquet (n.) An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern..
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..
Ruffian :: Ruffian (v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
Bass Viol :: Bass viol () A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello..
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