A lord will hear your play to- night.
Shak.
Courts are theaters where some men play.
Donne.
To play into a person's hands, to act, or to manage matters, to his
advantage or benefit. -- To play off, to affect; to feign; to practice
artifice. -- To play upon. (a) To make sport of; to deceive.
Art thou alive? Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight.
Shak.
(b) To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application
to; as, to play upon words.
Play, v. t. 1. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a
fortification; to play a trump.
First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the
soul.
Herbert.