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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A part of a play, especially in medieval and Renaissance drama, that is enacted without speaking.
  2. n. Communication or acting by means of expressive gestures; pantomime.

Wiktionary

  1. n. theater A performance during which the players do not speak.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a performance using gestures and body movements without words

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  1. playing
  1. performing
  1. acting
  1. playacting

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  1. panto-

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  1. pantomimic
  2. pantomime
  1. dumb
  2. dumb crambo
  1. byplay
  2. pantomimically
  1. chorus
  2. dumb show
  1. dumb-show
  2. mute

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  1. dumb act

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