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Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.

ely 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 small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.

Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

up to be knocked down by the balls. -- Pool ball, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. -- Pool snipe (Zoöl.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pool table, a billiard table with pockets.

Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card parties, by which after every game, the losers at the first table go to the last table, and the winners at all the tables, except the first, move up to the next table. -- Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous d…

A broad, shallow basket, for displaying fruit or flowers.

Act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.

ed.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. -- To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. For the certain knowledge…

A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.

An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. Specifically:

One who is subjected to playing rack-rent.

or a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.

e so linked that their union implies certain properties, and are conveniently regarded as playing the part of a single atom; a residue; -- called also a compound radical. Cf. Residue.

To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit. To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.

's partner; as, to return a trump; to return a diamond for a club. To return a lead (Card Playing), to lead the same suit led by one's partner.

To exceed an adversary's wager in card playing. [Obs.]

A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

ie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.