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A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.

A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.

A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

k window (Arch.), a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed. -- Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually…

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.

The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enter upon the theatrical profession.

ontaining a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current. Bobbin and fly frame, a roving machine. -- Bobbin lace, lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.

Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

A key or other device for breaking an electrical circuit.

A bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the commutator of a dynamo, electric motor, or similar apparatus.

A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.

d E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high degree of intricacy, imprinting the results on a leaden plate, from which a stereotype plate is then directly made.

cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face; one which is set or shaped eccentrically, so that its revolutions impart a varied, reciprocating, or intermittent motion.

e Catholic epistles, under Canholic. -- Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devo…

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.

The state or quality of being centric; centricalness.