·noun Play; idle jingle.
II. Sport ·noun A sportsman; a gambler.
III. Sport ·vt To represent by any knd of play.
IV. Sport ·vi To Trifle.
V. Sport ·noun Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
VI. Sport ·noun That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
VII. Sport ·vt To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
VIII. Sport ·vi To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
IX. Sport ·vi To Play; to Frolic; to Wanton.
X. Sport ·noun That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
XI. Sport ·noun Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, ·esp. when money is staked.
XII. Sport ·vt To Divert; to Amuse; to make merry;
— used with the reciprocal pronoun.
XIII. Sport ·vt To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner;
— with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
XIV. Sport ·vi 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, ·noun, 6.
XV. Sport ·noun 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.