Definition of play

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Play (n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game..

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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..
Spot :: Spot (n.) A small part of a different color from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card..
Played :: Played (imp. & p. p.) of Pla.
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..
Philander :: Philander (v. i.) To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
Outthrow :: Outthrow (v. t.) To excel in throwing, as in ball playing..
Paronomastical :: Paronomastical (a.) Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.
Sportsmen :: Sportling (n.) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Retable :: Retable (n.) A shelf behind the altar, for display of lights, vases of wlowers, etc..
Cassino :: Cassino (n.) A game at cards, played by two or more persons, usually for twenty-one points..
Scratch :: Scratch (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
Playgame :: Playgame (n.) Play of children.
Semibarbaric :: Semibarbaric (a.) Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display..
Slatterpouch :: Slatterpouch (n.) A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise..
Lighten :: Lighten (v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash..
Embrasure :: Embrasure (n.) A splay of a door or window.
Interact :: Interact (n.) A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time..
Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..
Kettledrummer :: Kettledrummer (n.) One who plays on a kettledrum.
Hazard :: Hazard (n.) Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard)..
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