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Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity. " A spirit of levity and libertinism." Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy.

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.]

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. [Eng.] Richardson (Dict.).

Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. [Obs.] Tooker.

Sportive. [Obs.] -- Lu"di*bund*ness, n. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt; sportive. Broome. A chapter upon German rhetoric would be in the same ludicrous predicament as Van Troil's chapter on the snakes of Iceland, which delivers its business in one summary sentence, announcing, that snakes in Iceland -- there are none. De Quincey.…

Making sport; tending to excite derision. [Obs.]

Used in play; sportive; playful. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production.

Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. "The merry madcap

characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. Dryden.

To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not. A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin. L'Estrange.

many species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. -- May game, any May-day sport. -- May lady, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. -- May lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis). -- May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary. -- May queen, a girl or young woman crowned queen in…

l pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

ess in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry. Merrily sing, and sport, and play. Granville.

gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Shak.