Action, performance, carrying out; exercise of a profession, esp. medicine or law. Now usually: repeated execution of a skill in order to acquire…

The performance of a jongleur.

Music. A preliminary flourish; ‘tuning up.’ Obsolete.

With up: the action or condition of ‘warming up’ (see warm, v. 3). Frequently attributive.

Originally and chiefly Music. The action of practising or rehearsing, esp. in private; intensive private rehearsal, composition, etc. Cf. woodshed, n.…