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player 1. a person who plays a musical instrument 2. an actor 3. See record player 4. the playing mechanism in a Pianola Player Gary . born 1935, South African professional golfer: won the British Open Championship (1959; 1968; 1974) and the US Open Championship (1965) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Some have considered the larger part of mankind in the light of actors, as personating characters no more their own, and to which in fact they have no better title, than the player hath to be in earnest thought the king or emperor whom he represents. If what is now said does not make this clear, we will explain it still further: if there should be any one, a very excellent player on the flute, but very deficient in family and beauty, though each of them are more valuable endowments than a skill in music, and excel this art in a higher degree than that player excels others, yet the best flutes ought to be given to him; for the superiority [1283a] in beauty and fortune should have a reference to the business in hand; but these have none. She had evidently made up her mind, beforehand, what player to pick out first. |
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