Definition of player

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Player (n.) A gamester; a gambler.

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Actor :: Actor (n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer.
Player :: Player (n.) One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler..
Chess :: Chess (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns..
Singleton :: Singleton (n.) In certain games at cards, as whist, a single card of any suit held at the deal by a player; as, to lead a singleton..
Stager :: Stageplayer (n.) An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer..
Violist :: Violist (n.) A player on the viol.
Cue :: Cue (n.) The last words of a play actor's speech, serving as an intimation for the next succeeding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword..
Hockey :: Hockey (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals..
Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..
Rover :: Rover (v. i.) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head..
Trick :: Trick (a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players..
Exciteful :: Exciteful (n.) Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players..
Catcher :: Catcher (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
Misdeal :: Misdeal (n.) The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
Split :: Split (v. i.) to divide one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value..
Comedian :: Comedian (n.) An actor or player in comedy.
Check :: Check (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move..
Hazarder :: Hazarder (n.) A player at the game of hazard; a gamester.
Displayer :: Displayer (n.) One who, or that which, displays..
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