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SPORLIVOI,- Nos, a cape on the south coast of Nova 
Zembia. Lat. 70. 30. N. long. 60. 34. E. 
SPORT, s. [ spot!, a make-game, Icelandic.] Play; diver¬ 
sion ; game; frolic and tumultuous merriment. 
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; 
They kill us for their sport.' Shakspeare. 
As a mad man who casteth fire-brands, arrows and death ; 
so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am 
not I in sport ? Prov. —The discourse of fools is irksome, 
and their sport is in the wantonness of sin. Ecc/us .— 
Mock; contemptuous mirth.—If I suspect without cause, 
why then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. 
Shakspeare. —That with which one plays. 
Each on his rock transfix’d, the sport and prey 
Of wracking whirlwinds. Milton. 
Commit not thy prophetic mind 
To flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. 
Lest they disperse in air. Dry den. 
Some grave their wrongs on marble, he more just 
Stoop’d down serene, and wrote them on the dust. 
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind 
Swept from the earth, and blotted from his mind. 
Their secret in the grave he bade them lie. 
And griev’d they could not ’scape th’ Almighty’s eye. 
Dr. Madden. 
Play ; idle gingle.—An author who should introduce such 
a sport of words upon our stage, would meet with small ap¬ 
plause. Broome. —Diversion of the field, as of fowling, 
hunting, 4181005 . 
Now for our mountain sport, up to yon hill. 
Your legs are young. Shakspeare. 
To SPORT, v. a. To divert; to make merry. It is used 
only with the reciprocal pronoun.—Against whom do ye 
sport yourselves ? against whom make ye a wide mouth, 
and draw out the tongue ? Isa. —What pretty stories these 
are for a man of his seriousness to sport himself withal! 
At ter bury. —To represent by any kind of play. 
Now sporting on thy lyre the love of youth, 
Now virtuous age and venerable truth ;~ 
Expressing justly Sappho’s wanton art 
Of odes, and Pindar’s more majestic part. Dry den. 
To SPORT, v. n. To play; to frolic; to game; to 
wanton. 
They, sporting with quick glance. 
Shew to the sun their wav’d coats dropt with gold. Milton. 
To trifle.—If any man turn religion into raillery, by bold 
jests, he renders himself ridiculous, because he sports with his 
own life. Tillotson. 
SPO'RTER, s. One who sports. 
SPO'RTFUL, adj. Merry; frolic; wanton; acting in jest. 
How with a sportful malice it was follow’d. 
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge. Shakspeare. 
Ludicrous; done in jest. 
Behold your own Ascanius, while he said. 
He drew his glittering helmet from his head. 
In which the youth to sportful arms he led. Dryden. 
SPO'RTFULLY, adv. Wantonly; merrily.—There is 
nothing more surprising in its own nature than to see or hear 
a serious thing sportfully represented. Scott. 
SPO'RTFULNESS, s. Wantonness; play; merriment; 
frolic.—The otter got out of the river, and inweeded himself 
so, as the ladies lost the further marking of his sportfulness. 
Sidney. —When sadness dejects me, either I countermine it 
with another sadness, or I kindle squibs about me again, and 
fly into sportfulness and company. Donne. 
SPO’RTINGLY, adv. In jest; in sport.—The question 
you there put, you do it I suppose but sportingly. Ham¬ 
mond. 
SPO'RTIVE, adj. Gay; merry; frolic; wanton; play¬ 
ful ; ludicrous. 
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I am not in a sportive humour now; 
Tell me, and dally not, where is the money? Shakspeare. 
SPO'RTIVENESS, s. Gaiety ; play ; wantonness.—Shall 
I conclude her to be simple, that has her time to begin, or 
refuse sportiveness as freely as I have ? Walton. 
SPO'RTLESS, adj. Joyless; sad. 
Her weeping eys in pearled dew she steeps. 
Casting what sportless nights she ever led. P. Fletcher. 
SPO'RTSMAN. One who pursues the recreations of the 
field.—Manilius lets us know the pagan hunters had Melea¬ 
ger for their patron, as the Christians have their St. Hubert: 
he speaks of the constellation which makes a good sports¬ 
man. Addison. 
SPORT [JLA, or Sportet.la, a dole, or largess, either of 
meat or money, given by princes, or great men, to the peo¬ 
ple or poor. 
The sportula was properly the pannier or basket in which 
the meat was brought, or with which the poor went to beg 
it; thence the word was transferred to the meat itself, and 
thence to money sometimes given in lieu of it. 
SPO'RTULARY, adj. {from sportulare, low Lat.] Sub¬ 
sisting on alms or charitable contributions.—These sportu- 
lary preachers are fain to soothe up their many masters, and 
are so engaged with the fear of a starving displeasure, that 
they dare not be free in the reprehension of the daring sins 
of their uncertain benefactors. Bp. Hall. 
SPO'RTULE, s. \sportule, Fr.; sportula, Lat.] An 
alms; a dole.—The bishops, who consecrated the ground, 
had a spill or sportule from the credulous laity. Ay life. 
SPOT, s. [ spette , Danish; spotte, Flemish; spiu't, Su. 
Goth, from spotta, spuere, to spit, according to Serenius; 
and so Mr. H. Tooke considers our spot as formed from the 
Sax. ppictan, to spit, but this is very obscure.] A blot; a 
mark made by discoloration. 
This three years day, these eyes, though clear 
To outward view of blemish or of spot. 
Bereft of sight, their seeing have forgot. Milton. 
A taint; a disgrace: a reproach; a fault. 
Yet Chloe sure was form’d without a spot , 
’Tis true, but something in her was forgot. Pope. 
A small extent of place.—He could make two ears of com 
grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, 
would deserve better of mankind than the whole race of po¬ 
liticians. Swift. —Any particular place. 
I would be busy in the world, and learn. 
Not like a coarse and useless dunghill weed. 
Fix’d to one spot, and rot just as I grow. Otway. 
A kind of pigeon. 
Upon the Spot. Immediately; without changing place. 
[Sur le champ.'] —It was determined upon the spot, accord¬ 
ing as the oratory on either side prevailed. Swift. 
To SPOT, v. a. To mark with discoloration; to mas- 
culate. 
But serpents now more amity maintain; 
From spotted skins the leopard does refrain: 
No weaker lion’s by a stronger slain. Tate. 
To patch by way of ornament.—I counted the patches on 
both sides, and found the tory patches to be about twenty 
stronger than the whig; but next morning the whole puppet- 
show was filled with faces, spotted after the whiggish manner. 
Addison.— -To corrupt; to disgrace; to taint. 
This vow receive, this vow of God maintain. 
My virgin life, no spotted thoughts shall stain. Sidney. 
SPOTICO, a small island in the Grecian archipelago, of 
an irregular form, about four miles long, and from one to 
two broad ; 6 miles west-south-west of Paros. Lat. 36. 59. 
N. long. 25. 12. E. 
SPOTLAND, an extensive township of England, in Lan¬ 
cashire ; 3 miles north-by-west of Rochdale. Population 
10,968. 
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