Definition of play

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Play (v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it..

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Bye :: Bye (n.) In certain games, a station or place of an individual player..
Playte :: Playte (n.) See Pleyt.
Piquet :: Piquet (n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside..
Keno :: Keno (n.) A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered..
Dice :: Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n..
Play :: Play (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
Lead :: Lead (n.) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead..
Actor :: Actor (n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.
Blazon :: Blazon (v. t.) To depict in colors; to display; to exhibit conspicuously; to publish or make public far and wide.
Bannerol :: Bannerol (n.) A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
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..
Pomp :: Pomp (n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
Write :: Write (v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose..
Histrionical :: Histrionical (a.) Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical; -- sometimes in a bad sense.
Sportless :: Sportive (a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry..
Iridescent :: Iridescent (a.) Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass..
Giantize :: Giantize (v. i.) To play the giant.
Byplay :: Byplay (n.) Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds..
Leapfrog :: Leapfrog (n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former..
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.
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