that which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.-mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.-that with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.-play; idle jingle.-diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.-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.-a sportsman; a gambler.-to play; to frolic; to wanton.-to practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.-to trifle.-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.-to divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.-to represent by any knd of play.-to exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.-to give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.