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A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.

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  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • SPORTING
    Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
  • SPORTIVE
    Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
  • SPORTAL
    Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
  • SPORTFUL
    1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
  • SPORTER
    One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
  • SPORTLING
    A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
  • SPORTULA
    A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South.
  • SPORTSMAN
    One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
  • SPORTULE
    A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. Ayliffe.
  • SPORTABILITY
    Sportiveness.
  • SPORT
    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. 7. A sportsman; a gambler. In sport, in jest; for play or diversion.
  • WITTICISM
    A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.
  • 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.
  • SPORTULARY
    Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. Bp. Hall.
  • SPORTINGLY
    In sport; sportively. The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly. Hammond.
  • SPORTSMANSHIP
    The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • TRANSPORTED
    Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
  • DISPORTMENT
    Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
  • TRANSPORT
    1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
  • TRANSPORTABLE
    1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
  • TRANSPORTER
    One who transports.
  • TRANSPORTINGLY
    So as to transport.
  • OUTSPORT
    To exceed in sporting. "Not to outsport discretion." Shak.
  • PASSPORT
    port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See 1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land

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