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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Displayed :: Displayed (a.) With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle..
Prince :: Prince (v. i.) To play the prince.
Intermede :: Intermede (n.) A short musical dramatic piece, of a light and pleasing, sometimes a burlesque, character; an interlude introduced between the acts of a play or an opera..
Varlet :: Varlet (n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack..
Politize :: Politize (v. i.) To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.
Pool :: Pool (n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table..
Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A game played with quoits.
Display :: Display (v. t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Table :: Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
Poker :: Poker (n.) A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States..
Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
Court :: Court (v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting..
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it..
Wavy :: Wavy (a.) Playing to and fro; undulating; as, wavy flames..
Perk :: Perk (v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head..
Pique :: Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one..
Polychromate :: Polychromate (n.) A compound which exhibits, or from which may be prepared, a variety of colors, as certain solutions derived from vegetables, which display colors by fluorescence..
Play :: Play (v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ..
Playful :: Playful (a.) Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer..
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