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An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the

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• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• INFERIOR
  A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another. A great person gets more by obliging his inferior than by disdaining him. South.
• INFERIORITY
  The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
• THEATRICAL
  Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• LACKBRAIN
  One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• ITINERANT
  One who travels from place to place, particularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.
• LACKEY
  An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored
• ITINERANTLY
  In an itinerant manner.
• THEATRICALS
  Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs. Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and `musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his confraternity of frivolity. I. Disraeli.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• LACKER
  One who lacks or is in want.
• LACK
  1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak.
• LACKADAISY
  An expression of languor.
• BARNSTORMER
  An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the
• LACKADAISICAL
  Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• REFRACTOR
  Anything that refracts; specifically:
• REDACTOR
  One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor. Carlyle.
• MALEFACTOR
  1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their