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Displayed
Displayed Dis*played", a. 1. Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously. 2. (Her.) With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle. 3. (Print.) Set with lines of prominent type interspersed, to catch the eye.
Displayer
Displayer Dis*play"er, n. One who, or that which, displays.
Player
Player Play"er, n. 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; a gambler.
Puppet player
2. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play. At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded puppets dance. --Pope. 3. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt. --Sir W. Scott. 4. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. Puppet master. Same as Puppetman. Puppet play, a puppet show. Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by wires. Puppet valve, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts. of Plunger pump, and Safety valve, under Plunger, and Safety.
Scratch player
Scratch player Scratch player, runner unner, etc. One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
Stageplayer
Stageplayer Stage"play`er, n. An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
Swordplayer
Swordplayer Sword"play`er, n. A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Meaning of Playe from wikipedia

- The Game and Playe of Chesse is a book by William Caxton, the first English printer. Published in the 1470s, it is one of the earliest titles published...
- Torruellas Brito (born 2 November 1964), better known as Playero DJ, DJ Playero, Playe, Play, is a Puerto Rican DJ who was a key figure in the dissemination of...
- Chief. A similar rhyme has been noted in William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse (c. 1475), in which pawns are named: "Labourer, Smith, Clerk...
- maner of a morall playe") and when a character, Messenger, states that this literary work will communicate "By fygure [of] a morall playe" (l. 3). However...
- A dummy hand or dummy in card games is a special hand dealt to an imaginary extra player, and often pla**** out according to certain rules. A dummy hand...
- gyue a counte of they're lyues in this worlde, and is in maner of a morall playe. Here begins a treatise how the high Father of Heaven sends Death to summon...
- m! Bryan and maister Weston c. 1596 - Sir John Harington, A Treatise on Playe, in Nugae antiquae (1769) Pope Julio (if I fail not in the name, and sure...
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- Hill, published on the game under the title The most ancient and learned Playe, called the Philosopher's Game invented for the honest recreation of Students...
- that a man may be to couning at it, for who ever will be excellent in the playe of chestes, I beleave he must beestowe much tyme about it, and applie it...