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• play the wanton — To trifle or (obsolete) to behave lewdly • • • Main Entry: ↑wanton …   Useful english dictionary

• Wanton — Wan ton, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wantoned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wantoning}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to revel; to play loosely; to frolic. [1913 Webster] Nature here wantoned as in her prime. Milton.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• wanton — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from wan deficient, wrong, mis (from Old English, from wan deficient) + towen, past participle of teen to draw, train, discipline, from Old English tēon more at tow Date: 14th century 1. a. archaic hard to… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• The Parson's Wedding — is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Killigrew. Often regarded as the author s best play, the drama has sometimes been considered an anticipation of Restoration comedy, written a generation before the Restoration; its general… …   Wikipedia

• The Lochmaben Harper (ballad) — The Lochmaben Harper or The Blind Harper is a traditional British Folk ballad ((Child # 192, Roud # 85) [http://library.efdss.org/cgi bin/query.cgi?index roud=on cross=off type=Song access=off op 9=or field 9= op 12=or field 12= op 13=or field 13 …   Wikipedia

• The Antipodes — is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by Richard Brome. Many critics have ranked The Antipodes as his best play...Brome s masterpiece, [Steggle, pp. 9 10.] and one of the best Caroline comedies mdash; gay, imaginative, and spirited...;… …   Wikipedia

• The Captain (play) — The Captain is the title of a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. It was originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.Performance and publicationThe play was acted at Court by… …   Wikipedia

• The Insatiate Countess — is an early Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy first published in 1613. The play is a problematic element in John Marston s dramatic canon.Publication The Insatiate Countess was first printed in 1613, in a quarto issued by the bookseller Thomas… …   Wikipedia

• Play — Play, v. t. 1. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. [1913 Webster] First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. Herbert. [1913 Webster] 2. To perform music upon; as, to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The Battle Hymn of the Republic — is an American abolitionist song written by Julia Ward Howe in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1, 1862 that was made popular during the American Civil War. HistoryThe tune was written around 1855 by William… …   Wikipedia

• wanton — /ˈwɒntən / (say wontuhn) adjective 1. done, shown, used, etc., maliciously or unjustifiably: *my father, appalled by the wanton destruction of the bird life he loved, brought in a bill for its protection –mary durack, 1959. 2. deliberate and… …