Definition of actor

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Actor (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

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Melodrama :: Melodrama (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..
Hong :: Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage..
Abactor :: Abactor (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Lockout :: Lockout (n.) The closing of a factory or workshop by an employer, usually in order to bring the workmen to satisfactory terms by a suspension of wages..
Playbill :: Playbill (n.) A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors..
Sugariness :: Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
Fragrant :: Fragrant (a.) Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
Cold :: Cold (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
Doer :: Doer (v. t. & i.) One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
Detractory :: Detractory (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.
Scent :: Scent (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does..
Diagraph :: Diagraph (n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale..
Telltale :: Telltale (n.) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted..
Calefactive :: Calefactive (a.) See Calefactory.
Demicircle :: Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass..
Pantomime :: Pantomime (n.) A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally..
Bidding Prayer :: Bidding prayer () The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon..
Donor :: Donor (n.) One who gives or bestows; one who confers anything gratuitously; a benefactor.
Tractory :: Tractory (n.) A tractrix.
Factorize :: Factorize (v. t.) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff..
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