Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sported"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sporting}.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.

[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun
their waved coats dropt with gold. --Milton.

2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.

3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.'' --Tillotson.

4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) 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.

Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.


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