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.
The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
A portable or wearable timepiece.
A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
A particular time period when guarding is kept.
A person or group of people who guard.
A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
To mind, attend, or guard.
To be wary or cautious of.
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
To be vigilant or on one's guard.
To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
To act as a lookout.
To attend to dangers to or regarding.