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Webster 1913 Edition
Sporting
Sport′ing
,Adj.
Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
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.