| Sport (sport) |
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| n. | (sp rt) |
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| Sport |
| [Abbreviated frm
disport.] |
That which diverts, and makes
mirth; pastime; amusement.
Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth;
derision.
That with which one plays, or which is
driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of
mockery.
Play; idle jingle.
Diversion of the field, as fowling,
hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is
staked.
A plant or an
animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not
usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See
Sporting plant, under Sporting.
A sportsman; a gambler.
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To play] to frolic; to
wanton.
To practice the diversions of the field or
the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
To trifle.
To assume
suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or
from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or
animal. See Sport, n., 6.
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To
divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal
pronoun.
To represent by any knd of play.
To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use
or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
To give utterance to in a sportive manner;
to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to
sport off epigrams.
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