Definition of play

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Play (n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action..

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Vagabondize :: Vagabondize (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
Mall :: Mall (n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
Flute A Bec :: Flute a bec () A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet..
Dandle :: Dandle (v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant..
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
Promenade :: Promenade (v. i.) To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise..
Pushpin :: Pushpin (n.) A child's game played with pins.
Quintole :: Quintole (n.) A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.
Play :: Play (v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin..
Play :: Play (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays..
Bagpiper :: Bagpiper (n.) One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
Organ :: Organ (n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ..
Play :: Play (n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
Play :: Play (n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit..
By :: By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc..
Ecarte :: Ecarte (n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack..
Meritot :: Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy..
Hurling :: Hurling (n.) A kind of game at ball, formerly played..
Gig :: Gig (n.) A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.
Sitting :: Sitting (n.) The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc..
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