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

Card :: Card (n.) A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards..

Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A board on which a game is played, by pushing or driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny..

Counterturn :: Counterturn (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties..

Display :: Display (v. t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.

Play :: Play (n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.

Monarchize :: Monarchize (v. i.) To play the sovereign; to act the monarch.

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Hellenize :: Hellenize (v. i.) To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

Loggat :: Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground..

Juggle :: Juggle (v. i.) To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.

On :: On (prep.) Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind..

Flute :: Flute (v. i.) To play on, or as on, a flute; to make a flutelike sound..

Fluter :: Fluter (n.) One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol..

Fifer :: Fifer (n.) One who plays on a fife.

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..

Courter :: Courter (n.) One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles..

Trick :: Trick (a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

Splay :: Splay (a.) Displayed; spread out; turned outward; hence, flat; ungainly; as, splay shoulders..

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