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Singleton :: Singleton (n.) In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton..

Jape :: Jape (v. i.) To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.

Tabling :: Tabling (n.) Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10..

Preluder :: Preluder (n.) One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude..

Epilogue :: Epilogue (n.) A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play..

Antic :: Antic (n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.

Bogie :: Bogie (n.) A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track..

Touchback :: Touchback (n.) The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.

Sport :: Sport (n.) Play; idle jingle.

Splay :: Splay (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders..

Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..

Rack :: Rack (a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something..

Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection..

Play :: Play (v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

Thrum :: Thrum (v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.

Lutanist :: Lutanist (n.) A person that plays on the lute.

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

Divertissement :: Divertissement (n.) A short ballet, or other entertainment, between the acts of a play..

Improvise :: Improvise (v. t.) To compose, recite, or sing extemporaneously, especially in verse; to extemporize; also, to play upon an instrument, or to act, extemporaneously..

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