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

= rehearsal, n. 2. rare after 16th cent.

The training (of a person or his faculties) by practice; practice (of an art, etc.) for the sake of improvement; an instance or a mode of this.

Repeated exercise in or performance of an activity so as to acquire, improve, or maintain proficiency in it; activity undertaken to this end; (also)…

A practice performance of all or part of a play or other work, in preparation for later public performance. Also (in later use): a trial…

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