Word Meanings - SPORTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.

• Merrythought
  The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
• Sportulae
  of Sportula
• Tender-hefted
  Having great tenderness; easily moved.
• MERRYANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients
• Playful
  Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.
• Sportula
  A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess.
• Tenderling
  One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
• MERRYGOROUND
  Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
• Engaging
  of Encage
• Sportulary
  Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
• Tenderloin
  A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
• TENDERHEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. Be y
• Sported
  of Sport
• Sportule
  A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.
• Tenderly
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
• TENDERHEFTED
  Having great tenderness; easily moved. [Obs.] Shak.
• Sporting
  of Sport

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