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Afterpiece :: Afterpiece (n.) A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment..

Stage :: Stage (n.) The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited..

Run :: Run (a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months..

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..

Trick :: Trick (a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players..

Base :: Base (n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base..

Carillon :: Carillon (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys..

Foinery :: Foinery (n.) Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point, as distinguished from broadsword play..

Punt :: Punt (v. i.) To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble..

Finger :: Finger (v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

Sportless :: Sportive (a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry..

Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks..

Spoilful :: Spoilfive (n.) A certain game at cards in which, if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled..

Miss :: Miss (n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player..

Table :: Table (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table..

Camp :: Camp (n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England..

Waver :: Waver (v. i.) To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter..

Organ :: Organ (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ..

Knicker :: Knicker (n.) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing..

Bugler :: Bugler (n.) One who plays on a bugle.

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