Definition of play

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Play (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.

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Gest :: Gest (n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony..
Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display..
Ruffian :: Ruffian (v. i.) To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game..
Rover :: Rover (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball..
Isochasmic :: Isochasmic (a.) Indicating equal auroral display; as, an isochasmic line..
Lap :: Lap (n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Criticise :: Criticise (v. i.) To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; -- formerly used with on or upon.
Aside :: Aside (n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear..
Scene :: Scene (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action..
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Trigon :: Trigon (n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
Drawgloves :: Drawgloves (n. pl.) An old game, played by holding up the fingers..
Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Die :: Die (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice..
Marble :: Marble (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles..
Batting :: Batting (n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
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