Word Meanings - GAMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.

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• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PLAYFELLOW
  A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• GAMESOME
  Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.
• PLAYTHING
  A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.
• GAMBLE
  To play or game for money or other stake. (more info) Etym:
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• PLAYGAME
  Play of children. Locke.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• PLAYMATE
  A companion in diversions; a playfellow.
• PLAYBOOK
  A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. Swift.
• PLAYING
  a. & vb. n. of Play. Playing cards. See under Card.
• PLAYGOER
  One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.
• PLAYHOUSE
  1. A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater. Shak. 2. A house for children to play in; a toyhouse.
• PLAYFERE
  A playfellow. Holinsheld.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• WORDPLAY
  A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.
• PHOTOPLAY
  A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.
• OLYMPIC GAMES; OLYMPIAN GAMES
  A modified revival of the ancient Olympian games, consisting of international athletic games, races, etc., now held once in four years, the first having been at Athens in 1896.
• SPLAY
  1. To display; to spread. "Our ensigns splayed." Gascoigne. 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. 3. To spay; to castrate. 4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss.
• MATCH PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play.