Definition of play

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Play (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit..

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Buffet :: Buffet (n.) A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard..
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..
Quibble :: Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate..
Crowder :: Crowder (n.) One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler.
Disport :: Disport (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
Staff :: Staff (n.) A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
Cast :: Cast (n.) The assignment of parts in a play to the actors.
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
Fives :: Fives (n. pl.) A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game..
Heart :: Heart (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps..
Scene :: Scene (n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action..
Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..
Sport :: Sport (n.) Play; idle jingle.
Protatic :: Protatic (a.) Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play; introductory.
Man :: Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played..
Finger :: Finger (v. t.) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
Badinage :: Badinage (n.) Playful raillery; banter.
Act :: Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
Cosmos :: Cosmos (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony..
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