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Sportability
(Sport`a*bil"i*ty) n. Sportiveness. [Obs.]
Sportal
(Sport"al) a. Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. [R.] "Sportal arms." Dryden.
Sporter
(Sport"er) n. One who sports; a sportsman.
As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him.
Goldsmith. Sportful
(Sport"ful) a.
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 productions of the soil.
Bentley. — Sport"ful*ly, adv. — Sport"ful*ness, n.
Sporting
(Sport"ing), a. 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 frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. — Sporting man,
one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. — Sporting plant
(Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different,
character from that of the rest of the plant. Darwin.
Sportingly
(Sport"ing*ly), adv. In sport; sportively.
The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.
Hammond. Sportive
(Sport"ive) a. 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.
Sportless
(Sport"less), a. Without sport or mirth; joyless.
Sportling
(Sport"ling) n. A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
When again the lambkins play —
Pretty sportlings, full of May.
Philips. Sportsman
(Sports"man) n.;pl. Sportsmen One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts,
fishes, etc.
Sportsmanship
(Sports"man*ship), n. The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.
Sportula
(||Spor"tu*la) n.; pl. Sportulæ [L.] 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. Sportulary
(Spor"tu*la*ry) a. Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
