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A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne

One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.

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

Making hot; producing or communicating heat.

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing. To have reduced the different qualifications in the different States to one uniform rule, would probably have been as dissatisfactory to some of the States, as difficult for the Convention. A. Hamilton. -- Dis*sat`is*fac"to*ri*ness, n.…

One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury.

One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.

Heating; warming. [Obs.] Holland.

One who, or that which, extracts; as:

business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant'…

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

A factor who is a woman. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.

The act of resolving into factors.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.