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One who plays on the tabor.
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One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety.
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A person that plays on the lute.
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One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
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Suited or intended to excite temporarily great interest or emotion; melodramatic; emotional; as, sensational plays or novels; sensational preaching; sensational journalism; a sensational report.
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So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
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One who sings or plays a solo.
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One who plays on a whiffle; a fifer or piper.
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One who plays on a lute.
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One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn.
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One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
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One who plays on a theorbo.
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A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.
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One who plays on a lute.
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Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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One who hurls, or plays at hurling.
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A woman who plays in tragedy.
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One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body; an acrobat.
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That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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An acid in which, to a greater or less extent, sulphur plays a part analogous to that of oxygen in an oxyacid; thus, thiosulphuric and sulpharsenic acids are sulphacids; -- called also sulphoacid. See the Note under Acid, n., 2.
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