Word Meanings - SMILET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A little smile. Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip. Shak.
Related words: (words related to SMILET)
- PLAY
quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - PLAYTE
See PLEYT - SMILER
One who smiles. Tennyson. - THOSE
The plural of that. See That. - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - HAPPY
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. - PLAYFELLOW
A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak. - PLAYTHING
A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke. - SMILE
mirari to wonder at, Skr. smi to smile; and probably to E. smicker. 1. To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. He doth nothing but frown . . . He hears merry tales and - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - PLAYSOME
Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n. - PLAYGAME
Play of children. Locke. - SMILET
A little smile. Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip. Shak. - PLAYER
1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester; - PLAYMATE
A companion in diversions; a playfellow. - PLAYBOOK
A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play. Swift. - PLAYING
a. & vb. n. of Play. Playing cards. See under Card. - PLAYGOER
One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances. - SPATHOSE
See SPATHIC - MEDAL PLAY
Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes. - SPLAYFOOT
A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - HORSEPLAY
Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden. - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - SPLAYMOUTH
A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden. - WORDPLAY
A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words. - PHOTOPLAY
A play for representation or exhibition by moving pictures; also, the moving-picture representation of a play. - SPLAY
1. To display; to spread. "Our ensigns splayed." Gascoigne. 2. To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. 3. To spay; to castrate. 4. To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc. Oxf. Gloss.