Definition of play

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Play (n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth..

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Company :: Company (n.) The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
Bow :: Bow (v. i.) To play (music) with a bow.
Organist :: Organist (n.) One who plays on the organ.
Muster :: Muster (v. t.) A show; a display.
Aside :: Aside (n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear..
Reproduce :: Reproduce (v. t.) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play..
Pibroch :: Pibroch (n.) A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle..
Handyy-dandy :: Handyy-dandy (n.) A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit..
Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A game played with quoits.
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..
Prelude :: Prelude (v. t.) To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air..
Perk :: Perk (v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head..
Protactic :: Protactic (a.) Giving a previous narrative or explanation, as of the plot or personages of a play; introductory..
Punnet :: Punnet (n.) A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers..
Varlet :: Varlet (n.) In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack..
Tongue :: Tongue (v. i.) To use the tongue in forming the notes, as in playing the flute and some other wind instruments..
Gush :: Gush (v. i.) To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner..
Keno :: Keno (n.) A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered..
Underplay :: Underplay (v. i.) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage..
Bugler :: Bugler (n.) One who plays on a bugle.
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