Definition of practice

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Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.

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Gypsyism :: Gypsyism (n.) The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.
Compurgation :: Compurgation (v. t.) The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager..
Inoculation :: Inoculation (n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh..
Saw :: Saw (v. i.) To use a saw; to practice sawing; as, a man saws well..
Thievery :: Thievery (n.) The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
Roguery :: Roguery (n.) The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices.
Moot :: Moot (v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
Observer :: Observer (n.) One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice..
Pilfer :: Pilfer (v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft..
Practice :: Practice (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
Huntsman :: Huntsman (n.) One who hunts, or who practices hunting..
Voltairism :: Voltairism (n.) The theories or practice of Voltaire.
Spiritualist :: Spiritualism (n.) A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists..
Stone :: Stone (n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law..
Ventriloquism :: Ventriloquism (n.) The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc..
Judaist :: Judaist (n.) One who believes and practices Judaism.
Vocalize :: Vocalize (v. t.) To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
Soothsaying :: Soothsaying (n.) The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.
Exercise :: Exercise (v. i.) To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement..
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