Definition of play

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Play (v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump..

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Playfere :: Playfere (n.) A playfellow.
Jiggish :: Jiggish (a.) Playful; frisky.
Cricket :: Cricket (v. i.) To play at cricket.
Rhetoricate :: Rhetoricate (v. i.) To play the orator.
Baccarat :: Baccarat (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters..
Pirate :: Pirate (v. i.) To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.
Rompish :: Rompish (a.) Given to rude play; inclined to romp.
Trapball :: Trapball (n.) An old game of ball played with a trap. See 4th Trap, 4..
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Sextolet :: Sextolet (n.) A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
Kindergarten :: Kindergarten (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden..
Loggat :: Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground..
Bob-cherry :: Bob-cherry (n.) A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth..
Stylus :: Stylus (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle. The stylus is frequently composed of metal or diamond..
Aerognosy :: Aerognosy (n.) The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature..
Marker :: Marker (n.) A counter used in card playing and other games.
Card :: Card (v. i.) To play at cards; to game.
Wanton :: Wanton (v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
Presentation :: Presentation (n.) exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.
Buffet :: Buffet (v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
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