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One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.

Making a fine show or display. [Archaic] Wear my dagger with the braver grace. Shak. For I have gold, and therefore will be brave. In silks I'll rattle it of every color. Robert Greene. Frog and lizard in holiday coats And turtle brave in his golden spots. Emerson.

whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience, he would have breeched me. Old Play.

; to make cheerful; as, to brighten one's prospects. An ecstasy, which mothers only feel, Plays round my heart and brightens all my sorrow. Philips.

Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. "With a brindled lion played." Churchill.

e; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.

A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement. [Low]

One who plays on a bugle.

(Card Playing) Whist played in an unscientific way.

A kind of bazaar. [Obs.] She says she went to the burse for patterns. Old Play.

ly, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak.

A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack. Shak.

A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. I played a sentence or two at my butt, which I thought very smart. Addison.

ntal, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by- design, by-interest, etc.

In certain games, a station or place of an individual player. Emerson.

-four time, resembing the bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (.] The orchestra plays the cachucha. Logfellow.