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ose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

Fencing; a sword fight.

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.

To hoard. [Obs.] Donne.

A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

o work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.

Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subj…

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

A player on the accordion.

A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

e event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket one into a playhouse.

The act of playing honor to a divine being; the worship paid to God; the act of addressing as a god. The more immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

Down. [Archaic & Poetic] Her hair adown her shoulders loosely lay displayed. Prior.

e winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aërial. Viewless forms the æolian organ play. Campbell. Æolian attachment, a contrivance often attached to a pianoforte, which prolongs the vibrations, increases the

The science which treats of the properties of the air, and of the part it plays in nature. Craig.