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An old game played with dice. Shak.

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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
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.
  • 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.
  • PLAYSOME
    Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
  • 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.
  • PLAYFUL
    Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play"ful*ly, adv. -- Play"ful*ness, n.
  • PLAYA
    A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.
  • PLAYTIME
    Time for play or diversion.
  • PLAYBILL
    A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors.
  • PLAYMAKER
    A playwright.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SPLAYFOOT; SPLAYFOOTED
    Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.

 

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