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A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).

To jest; to play the buffoon. [R.]

To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

rebound repeatedly from the surface of the water, raising a succession of jets; hence: To play at ducks and drakes, with property, to throw it away heedlessly or squander it foolishly and unprofitably. -- Lame duck. See under Lame.

To play the duke. [Poetic] Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence. Shak.

One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).

d as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight. Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.

A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.

A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison.

a) (Carp.) A plane for edging boards. (b) (Shoemaking) A plane for edging soles. -- Edge play, a kind of swordplay in which backswords or cutlasses are used, and the edge, rather than the point, is employed. -- Edge rail. (Railroad) (a) A rail set on edge; -- applied to a rail of more depth than width. (b) A guard ra…

r; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number. His flowing hair In curls on either cheek played. Milton. On either side . . . was there the tree of life. Rev. xxii. 2. The extreme right and left of either army never engaged. Jowett (Thucyd).

ounger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having the right to play, first. Hoyle.

ak. Their eldest historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.