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To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect. Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison.

Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind.

In cost accounting, expenditure which is involved in the process of manufacture or the performance of work and which cannot be charged directly to any particular article manufactured or work done (as where different kinds of goods are produced), but must be allocated so that each kind of goods or work shall bear its pr…

a hat, a gentleman's folding hat. -- Opera house, specifically, a theater devoted to the performance of operas. -- Opera seria Etym: [It.], serious or tragic opera; grand opera.

The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

One who performs some act upon the human body by means of the hand, or with instruments.

reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.

h an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.

Performance or rendering of such a composition.

Loosely: A band of instrumental musicians performing in a theater, concert hall, or other place of public amusement.

Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.

Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." Clarendon.

tical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.

ed; an organized existence; an organism; specif. (Biol.), an arrangement of parts for the performance of the functions necessary to life. The cell may be regarded as the most simple, the most common, and the earliest form of organization. McKendrick.

Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.

An instrument for performing osteoclasis.

To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass. An imposture outdoes the original. L' Estrange. I grieve to be outdone by Gay. Swift.