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Sport
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To represent by any knd of play.
(2):
(v. i.) To play; to frolic; to wanton.
(3):
(v. i.) To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
(4):
(v. i.) To trifle.
(5):
(v. i.) 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.
(6):
(v. t.) To divert; to amuse; to make merry; - used with the reciprocal pronoun.
(7):
(n.) A sportsman; a gambler.
(8):
(v. t.) To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
(9):
(v. t.) To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; - with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
(10):
(n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
(11):
(n.) Play; idle jingle.
(12):
(n.) That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
(13):
(n.) Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
(14):
(n.) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
(15):
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sport'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/sport.html. 1828.
