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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Sport :: Sport (n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery..
Combine :: Combine (v. i.) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played..
Player :: Player (n.) One who plays on an instrument of music.
Pomp :: Pomp (n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
Hypocrite :: Hypocrite (n.) One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety..
Dice :: Dice (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n..
Tyrant :: Tyrant (v. i.) To act like a tyrant; to play the tyrant; to tyrannical.
Diversion :: Diversion (n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth..
Bandy :: Bandy (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Bluster :: Bluster (v. i.) To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage..
Bye :: Bye (n.) In certain games, a station or place of an individual player..
Dice :: Dice (v. i.) To play games with dice.
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..
Toyhouse :: Toyhouse (n.) A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.
Show :: Show (n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.
Luter :: Luter (n.) One who plays on a lute.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
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..
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