Word Meanings - INTERLUDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An actor who performs in an interlude. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to INTERLUDER)

• 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
• INTERLUDER
  An actor who performs in an interlude. B. Jonson.
• INTERLUDE
  A short piece of instrumental music played between the parts of a song or cantata, or the acts of a drama; especially, in church music, a short passage played by the organist between the stanzas of a hymn, or in German chorals after each line.
• INTERLUDED
  Inserted in the manner of an interlude; having or containing interludes.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CALEFACTOR
  A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• 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.
• SATISFACTORY
  1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
• OLFACTORY
  Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as, the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ , an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part
• LACTORY
  Lactiferous. "Lactory or milky plants." Sir T. Browne.
• TRANSACTOR
  One who transacts, performs, or conducts any business. Derham.
• SUBSTRACTOR
  1. One who subtracts. 2. A detractor; a slanderer. Shak.
• FACTORIZE
  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
• ENACTOR
  One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.
• REACTOR
  A choking coil.
• ATTRACTOR
  One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
• ABACTOR
  One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.