A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
A sportsman; a gambler.
One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good 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. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
To display; to have as a notable feature.
To close (a door).
To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
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.
To amuse oneself, to play.
To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
To represent by any kind of play.
A level of quality or attainment.
Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
The sheth of a plough.
A collar of mail protecting the neck.
A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
A manual transmission vehicle.
A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
A large drinking cup.
standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
A musical work of established popularity.
An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
Grade level in primary education.
An expression of agreement.
Having a manual transmission.
Conforming to the standard variety.
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
As normally supplied (not optional).
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.