Definition of play

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Play (v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball..

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Out :: Out (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.
Parlante :: Parlante (a. & adv.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, or of feats of skill, or of oratorical or dramatic ability; as, an exhibition of animals; an exhibition of pictures, statues, etc.; an industrial exhibition..
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..
Lambent :: Lambent (a.) Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
Domino :: Domino (n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played.
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Histrionicism :: Histrionicism (n.) The histronic art; stageplaying.
Barleybreak :: Barleybreak (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal..
Twiddle :: Twiddle (v. i.) To play with anything; hence, to be busy about trifles..
Oratorize :: Oratorize (v. i.) To play the orator.
Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..
Kindergarten :: Kindergarten (n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden..
Playgame :: Playgame (n.) Play of children.
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
Harlequinade :: Harlequinade (n.) A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.
Harp :: Harp (v. t.) To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon..
Parade :: Parade (v. t.) The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled..
Camp :: Camp (n.) An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England..
Showroom :: Showroom (n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed..
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