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The game of kicking the football by opposing parties of players between goals. Arbuthnot.

To bungle; to manage awkwardly; to treat or play unskillfully; as, to foozle a stroke in golf.

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

he act of foraging; search for provisions, etc. He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

toms of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.

Requiring four "hands" or players; as, a fourhanded game at cards.

A game between four players, with two on each side and each side playing but one ball, the partners striking alternately. It is called a mixed foursome when each side consists of a man and a woman.

penwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine. Macaulay.

A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap. Johnson.

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.] Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. Shak.

To attend or wait on, as a lady; as, to gallant ladies to the play.

To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan. [Slang] Dickens.

To play or game for money or other stake.

To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

kill; field games, etc. But war's a game, which, were their subject wise, Kings would not play at. Cowper.

Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.

A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.

The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.