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To deceive by a story or a trick, for sport or mischief; to impose upon sportively. Lamb.

A pert girl; a frolicsome or sportive young woman; -- used jocosely. Goldsmith.

Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i. I must be sad . . . smile at no man's jests. Shak. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. Sheridan.…

Sportive; not serious; fit for jests. He will find that these are no jesting matters. Macaulay .

Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts.

Sportive; merry. "Jocular exploits." Cowper. The style is serious and partly jocular. Dryden.

Jocular; jocose; sportive. Bacon.

Droll; sportive. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Merry; cheerful; gay; airy; lively; sportive. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Shak. Rural sports and jocund strains. Prior. -- Joc"und*ly, adv. -- Joc"und*ness, n.

The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.

Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. Pope. Or witty joke our airy senses moves To pleasant laughter. Gay.

In a joking way; sportively.

A young person or youth; -- used sportively or familiarly. C. Bronté.

Frolicsome; sportive. [Slang]

bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton.…

The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]

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.

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.