Definition of play

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Play (n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.

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Bugler :: Bugler (n.) One who plays on a bugle.
Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..
Fiddle :: Fiddle (n.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Daub :: Daub (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
Dodger :: Dodger (n.) One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices..
Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..
Comedian :: Comedian (n.) An actor or player in comedy.
Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..
Merry :: Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Interlude :: Interlude (n.) A form of English drama or play, usually short, merry, and farcical, which succeeded the Moralities or Moral Plays in the transition to the romantic or Elizabethan drama..
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
Quoit :: Quoit (v. i.) To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
Field :: Field (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
Tray-trip :: Tray-trip (n.) An old game played with dice.
Marker :: Marker (n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards..
Skill :: Skill (n.) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
Pinocle :: Pinocle (n.) A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs..
Eleven :: Eleven (n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven..
Racket :: Racket (n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
Philosophate :: Philosophate (v. i.) To play the philosopher; to moralize.
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