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Sporting \Sport"ing\, a.
Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
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{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.
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Sport \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sported}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sporting}.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
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[Fish], sporting with quick glance,
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold.
--Milton.
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2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
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3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." --Tillotson.
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4. (Bot. & Zool.) 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. --Darwin.
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Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
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