Sport

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.

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