Word Meanings - QUIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. Tennyson.
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- SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - SPORTING
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - SPORTAL
Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden. - SPORTFUL
1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful - SPORTER
One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith. - SPORTLING
A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips. - SPORTULA
A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South. - SPORTSMAN
One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc. - SPORTULE
A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. Ayliffe. - SPORTABILITY
Sportiveness. - SPORT
A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting. 7. A sportsman; a gambler. In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. - WITTICISM
A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison. - RAILLERY
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison. - SPORTULARY
Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. Bp. Hall. - SPORTINGLY
In sport; sportively. The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly. Hammond. - SPORTSMANSHIP
The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports. - DISPORT
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - TRANSPORTABILITY
The quality or state of being transportable. - TRANSPORTED
Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n. - DISPORTMENT
Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More. - TRANSPORT
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as - TRANSPORTABLE
1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense. - TRANSPORTER
One who transports. - TRANSPORTINGLY
So as to transport. - OUTSPORT
To exceed in sporting. "Not to outsport discretion." Shak. - PASSPORT
port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See 1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land