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

To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams doth overlay. Spenser. Framed of cedar overlaid with gold. Milton. And overlay With this portentous bridge th…

One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.

A superficial covering; a coating.

A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play.

A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.

To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.

One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.

The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.

ly recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was playing in her walk. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play! Pope. And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword. Keble.

A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. Bartlett.

A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors.

A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. Swift.

A day given to play or diversion; a holiday. Swift.

One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak.

A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.

A playfellow. [Obs.] [Also, playfeer, playphere.] Holinsheld.

Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play"ful*ly, adv. -- Play"ful*ness, n.

Play of children. Locke.