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ng a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

A prompter at a theater. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement. Laughed at by the pit, box, galleries, nay, stage. Dorset. The boxes and the pit are sovereign judges. Dryden.

A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]

The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

d taught to allure others into a snare. -- Call boy (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helmsman, etc. (b) A waiting boy who answers a cal, or cames at the ringing of a bell; a bell boy. -- Call note, the note naturally used by the ma…

ic adapted to performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience room, instead of a theater, concert hall, or chuch. -- Chamber practice (Law.), the practice of counselors at law, who give their opinions in private, but do not appear in court. -- To sit at chambers, to do business in chambers, as a judge.…

To celebrate in song. The poets chant in the theaters. Bramhall.

One who cheats or deceives; an impostor; a deceiver; a cheater. Airy wonders, which cheats interpret. Johnson

A contrivance for clapping in theaters. [Obs.]

One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.

The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world. [Written also Colosseum.]

The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome. [Also written Coliseum.]

The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play. To keep company with. See under Keep, v. t.

e wrestlers, or the wrestling ground itself. Hence, a part of the orchestra of the Greek theater.

One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.