Word Meanings - STAGERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exhibition on the stage.

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• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• STAGERY
  Exhibition on the stage.
• STAGECOACHMAN
  One who drives a stagecoach.
• STAGECOACH
  A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
• STAGELY
  Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. Jer. Taylor.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• STAGE DIRECTOR
  One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.
• STAGE FRIGHT
  Nervousness felt before an audience.
• STAGER
  1. A player. B. Jonson. 2. One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W. Scott. 3. A horse
• STAGEPLAY
  A dramatic or theatrical entertainment. Dryden.
• STAGE MANAGER
  One in control of the stage during the production of a play. He directs the stage hands, property man, etc., has charge of all details behind the curtain, except the acting, and has a general oversight of the actors. Sometimes he is also the stage
• STAGE
  1. A floor or story of a house. Wyclif. 2. An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like. 3. A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a
• STAGE-STRUCK
  Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.
• STAGEHOUSE
  A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• HOSTAGE
  A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before
• BALLASTAGE
  A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• ADJUSTAGE
  Adjustment.
• LASTAGE
  1. A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will. 2. A tax on wares sold by the last. Cowell. 3. The lading of a ship; also, ballast. Spelman. 4. Room for stowing goods, as in a ship.