Sport
Definition of Sport
Pronunciation: spōrt | n. | 1. | That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. | | 2. | Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. - Shak. | | 3. | That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. | | 4. | Play; idle jingle. | | 5. | Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. | | 6. | (Bot. & Zool.) 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. | | 7. | A sportsman; a gambler. | | v. i. | 1. | To play; to frolic; to wanton. | | 2. | To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. | | 3. | To trifle. | | 4. | (Bot. & Zool.) 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To divert; to amuse; to make merry; - used with the reciprocal pronoun. | | 2. | To represent by any kind of play. | | 3. | To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. | | 4. | To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; - with off; as, to sport off epigrams.| To sport one's oak | | See under Oak, n. |
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