PPage 252
- English Word Plaud Definition To applaud.
- English Word Plaudit Definition A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
- English Word Plauditory Definition Applauding; commending.
- English Word Plausibility Definition Something worthy of praise.
- English Word Plausibility Definition The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
- English Word Plausibility Definition Anything plausible or specious.
- English Word Plausible Definition Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
- English Word Plausible Definition Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion.
- English Word Plausible Definition Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.
- English Word Plausibleize Definition To render plausible.
- English Word Plausibleness Definition Quality of being plausible.
- English Word Plausibly Definition In a plausible manner.
- English Word Plausibly Definition Contentedly, readily.
- English Word Plausive Definition Applauding; manifesting praise.
- English Word Plausive Definition Plausible, specious.
- English Word Play Definition To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
- English Word Play Definition To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- English Word Play Definition To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.
- English Word Play Definition To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.
- English Word Play Definition To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- English Word Play Definition To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.
- English Word Play Definition To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.
- English Word Play Definition To act on the stage; to personate a character.
- English Word Play Definition To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.
- English Word Play Definition To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.
- English Word Play Definition To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.
- English Word Play Definition To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.
- English Word Play Definition To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.
- English Word Play Definition To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.
- English Word Play Definition To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.