Definition of play

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Play (v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin..

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Pallone :: Pallone (n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball..
Splaymouth :: Splaymouths (pl. ) of Splaymout.
Player :: Player (n.) One who plays any game.
Romp :: Romp (n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport..
Man :: Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played..
Quadrille :: Quadrille (n.) A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded..
Merils :: Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris..
Punt :: Punt (n.) Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc..
Harp :: Harp (n.) To play on the harp.
Lumachella :: Lumachella (n.) A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, which reflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble, from its fiery reflections..
Drawgloves :: Drawgloves (n. pl.) An old game, played by holding up the fingers..
Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis..
Meritot :: Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy..
Trapstick :: Trapstick (n.) A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg..
Italianize :: Italianize (v. i.) To play the Italian; to speak Italian.
Bob :: Bob (v. i.) To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything..
Run :: Run (a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months..
Exhibit :: Exhibit (v. t.) To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery..
Cittern :: Cittern (n.) An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum..
Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) A plank or board adjusted for this play.
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