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    Sport , n. [Abbreviated from disport.]
    1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
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      It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.
      Prov. x. 23.

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      Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
      Sir P. Sidney.

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      Think it but a minute spent in sport.
      Shak.

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    2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
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      Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
      Shak.

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    3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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      Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind.
      Dryden.

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      Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
      John Clarke.

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    4. Play; idle jingle.
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      An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.
      Broome.

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    5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
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    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.
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    7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]
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      In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. “So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?” 
      Prov. xxvi. 19.

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      Syn. -- Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer.
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    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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    Sport, v. t.
    1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
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      Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
      Isa. lvii. 4.

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    2. To represent by any kind of play.
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      Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
      Dryden.

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    3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.]
      Grose.

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    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. [R.]
      Addison.

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      To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.
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