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[Eng. pantometr(y); -ic, -ical.] Of or pertaining to pan tometry. †păn-tom-ě-try, s . [PAN TO METER.] Universal IMG:content-0617.png:[blocks in formation] *1. Originally, the player who exhibited a mimic show; one who acted many parts in a play. "Not that I think those pantomimes , Who vary actions with the times, Are le ingenious in their art Then those who dully act one part." *2. An actor generally. Butler: Hudibras , iii. 2. "I would our pantomimes also and stage-players would examine themselves and their callings by this rule." Sanders on: Sermon on 1 Cor. vii. 24. *3. An actor who expre es his meaning by dumb action and mimicry. "A certain barbarian prince of Pontus saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the acting alone." -Tylor: Early Hist. Mankind, ch. iii. 4. A theatrical entertainment, given in dumb show; a dumb show. "He put off the representation of pantomimes till late hours on market-days."-Arbuthnot. 5. A popular theatrical entertainment produced in some English theaters at Christmas time. It consists of two parts: the first, a burlesque on some well-known tale or fable; the second wholly oссиpied with the comic acting of clown and pantaloon, and the dancing of harlequin and columbine. These two parts are separated by the transformation scene. B. As adj .: Representing only in dumb show. IMG:content-0618.png:[blocks in formation] păn-to-mim-ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. pantomimical; -ly.] In manner of a pantomime; by way of pantomime or dumb show. păn-tô-mim-Ist, s. [Eng. pantomim(e); -ist.] One who acts in pantomime. păn-ton, s . [Prov. Ger. pantine =a wooden shoe, a patten.] Farr .: A shoe contrived to recover a narrow and hoof-bound heel. panton-shoe, s. [PANTON.] păn-toph-a-gist, subst . [ Gr.pantophagos =eating everything: pant a =neut. pl. of pas =all, and phage in to eat. A person or animal that eats all kinds of food indiscriminately. păn-toph-a-go us, a. [PANTOPHAGIST.] Eating or living upon all kinds of food.