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One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Wyclif.

One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.

One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

t. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or blood color. The Aurora australis (is a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the same manner fr…

A female dancer in the East Indies. [Written also bajadere.]

A band of singers and dancers. The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden.

- Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. -- Clog dancer.

A ballet dancer.

a professional female dancer; a woman who dances at a public exhibition as in a ballet.

Back to back; as, to sit dos-à-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos- à-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.

Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.

Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.

Performing like a ropedancer. Chambers.

A ropewalker or ropedancer.

A ropewalker or ropedancer. [Obs.] Bacon.

as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Me…

A dancer of the lavolta.

Leaper; ropedancer. [Obs.]

A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.