Definition of play

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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..

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Dramatist :: Dramatist (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock..
Trigon :: Trigon (n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle.
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar..
Setout :: Setout (n.) A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed..
Varlet :: Varlet (n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack..
Flute :: Flute (v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound..
Wanton :: Wanton (v. i.) To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play lasciviously.
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..
Action :: Action (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
Playbook :: Playbook (n.) A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.
Inning :: Inning (n.) The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings..
Record :: Record (v. t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
Post :: Post (v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills..
Display :: Display (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
Masterful :: Masterful (a.) Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary.
Gaming :: Gaming (n.) The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Trill :: Trill (v. i.) To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
Sycophantcy :: Sycophant (v. i.) To play the sycophant.
Pedant :: Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
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