Definition of play

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Play (n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play..

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Capot :: Capot (v. t.) To win all the tricks from, in playing at piquet..
Parlante :: Parlante (a. & adv.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
Promenade :: Promenade (n.) A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise..
Harp :: Harp (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers..
Playa :: Playa (n.) A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation..
Cog :: Cog (v. i.) To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
Racket :: Racket (n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Stickle :: Stickle (v. i.) To play fast and loose; to pass from one side to the other; to trim.
Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..
Daub :: Daub (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
Credence :: Credence (n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose..
Scene :: Scene (n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes..
Finger :: Finger (v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
Loggat :: Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground..
Interplay :: Interplay (n.) Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection..
Retable :: Retable (n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc..
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled..
Carbide :: Carbide (n.) A binary compound of carbon with some other element or radical, in which the carbon plays the part of a negative; -- formerly termed carburet..
Unroll :: Unroll (v. t.) To display; to reveal.
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