A Topical Dictionary: Search for sporting

Dictionary Results For "sporting" [?]/[OPML]

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sporting.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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[Fish], sporting with quick glance,
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
--Milton.
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2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
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3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson.
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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. --Darwin.
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Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Sporting \Sport"ing\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
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Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.

Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.

Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.

Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin.
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WordNet Sporting
adj 1: marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a
clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the
disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean,
sportsmanlike]
2: relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting
equipment"
3: involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting
chance"; "sporting blood"
4: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially
games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man";
"a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool";
"sporting gents and their ladies" [syn: dissipated, betting,
card-playing, gambling]

Moby Dictionary
acrobatic , agonistic , athletic , betting , cardsharping ,
casting lots , chase , chevy , chivy , coursing , cynegetics ,
fair-minded , falconry , fox hunting , gambling , gaming , gunning ,
gymnastic , hawking , hazarding , hunt , hunting , palaestral , play ,
playing , risking , shikar , shooting , sortition , speculation , sport ,
sports , sportsmanlike , sportsmanly , square-dealing ,
square-shooting , staking , stalking , still hunt , venery , wagering