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A play upon wordsPlay Play, n.
1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.
2. Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement
or diversion; a game.
John naturally loved rough play. --Arbuthnot.
3. The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement,
or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as,
to lose a fortune in play.
4. Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair
play; sword play; a play of wit. ``The next who comes in
play.' --Dryden.
5. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition
in which characters are represented by dialogue and
action.
A play ought to be a just image of human nature.
--Dryden.
6. The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy;
as, he attends ever play.
7. Performance on an instrument of music.
8. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a
wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and
easy action. ``To give them play, front and rear.'
--Milton.
The joints are let exactly into one another, that
they have no play between them. --Moxon.
9. Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display;
scope; as, to give full play to mirth.
Play actor, an actor of dramas. --Prynne.
Play debt, a gambling debt. --Arbuthnot.
Play pleasure, idle amusement. [Obs.] --Bacon.
A play upon words, the use of a word in such a way as to be
capable of double meaning; punning.
Play of colors, prismatic variation of colors.
To bring into play, To come into play, to bring or come
into use or exercise.
To hold in play, to keep occupied or employed. Precatory wordsPreative Pre"a*tive, Preatory Pre"a*to*ry, a. [L.
precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See
Precarious.]
Suppliant; beseeching. --Bp. Hopkins.
Precatory words (Law), words of recommendation, request,
entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as
distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases
creating a trust. --Jarman. SwordsmanSwordsman Swords"man, n.; pl. Swordsmen.
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the
science of fencing; a fencer. Swordsmanship
Swordsmanship Swords"man*ship, n.
The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the
sword. --Cowper.
SwordsmenSwordsman Swords"man, n.; pl. Swordsmen.
1. A soldier; a fighting man.
2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the
science of fencing; a fencer. Wordsman
Wordsman Words"man, n.
One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. [R.]
``Some speculative wordsman.' --H. Bushnell.
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