Word Meanings - HORSEPLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.

HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v.
BOISTEROUSLY
In a boisterous manner.
BOISTEROUSNESS
The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
BOISTEROUS
1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak. 2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
RAILLERY
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment. Let raillery be without malice or heat. B. Jonson. Studies employed on low objects; the very naming of them is sufficient to turn them into raillery. Addison.
FORGIVENESS
1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;