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To give forth a play of colors, like the opal.

Reflecting a milky or pearly light from the interior; having an opaline play of colors.

The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.

, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.

To play the orator. [Jocose or derisive] Dickens.

A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of co…

ous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ. The deep, majestic, solemn organs blow. Pope.…

One who plays on the organ.

To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. Atterbury.

One fond of display; a boaster. Sherwood.

Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

To lay out; to spread out; to display. [R.] Drayton.

One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. Lyon Playfair.

To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.

ue in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far. Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing. Shak.

To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier.

letion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.