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n.
The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
n.
An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
v. t.
To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain; as, to support the character of King Lear.
n.
An actor or player in tragedy.
n.
A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.
n.
A subordinate actor.
n.
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
n.
A long dress, trailing on the floor, worn by tragic actors in Greek and Roman theaters.
n.
An actor.
n.
A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
a.
Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
n.
The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a symbol of comedy, or of the comic drama, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin.
n.
The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
a.
Used or employed for constant service or application, as if constituting a portion of a stock or supply; standard; permanent; standing; as, a stock actor; a stock play; a stock sermon.
n.
Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
v. t. & i.
To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
n.
A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
n.
A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
n.
A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
n.
A person or thing beyond what is necessary or usual; especially, a person employed not for regular service, but only to fill the place of another in case of need; specifically, in theaters, a person who is not a regular actor, but is employed to appear in a stage spectacle.
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