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Crossruff :: Crossruff (n.) The play in whist where partners trump each a different suit, and lead to each other for that purpose; -- called also seesaw..

Disport :: Disport (v. i.) Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Slatterpouch :: Slatterpouch (n.) A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise..

Pass :: Pass (v. i.) In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side..

Jockey :: Jockey (v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.

Harp :: Harp (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers..

Daft :: Daft (a.) Gay; playful; frolicsome.

Blazon :: Blazon (n.) Ostentatious display, either by words or other means; publication; show; description; record..

Pack :: Pack (n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack..

Melodiograph :: Melodiograph (n.) A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon..

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything..

Venditation :: Venditation (n.) The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display.

Harlot :: Harlot (v. i.) To play the harlot; to practice lewdness.

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

Quintole :: Quintole (n.) A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

Spectacular :: Spectacular (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play..

Goose :: Goose (n.) A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted..

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself..

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.

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