mime

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A form of ancient Greek and Roman theatrical entertainment in which familiar characters and situations were farcically portrayed on stage, often with coarse dialogue and ludicrous actions.
2. n. A performance of or dialogue for such an entertainment.
3. n. A performer in a mime.
4. n. A modern performer who specializes in comic mimicry.
5. n. The art of portraying characters and acting out situations or a narrative by gestures and body movement without the use of words; pantomime.
6. n. A performance of pantomime.
7. n. An actor or actress skilled in pantomime.
8. v. To ridicule by imitation; mimic.
9. v. To act out with gestures and body movement.
10. v. To act as a mimic.
11. v. To portray characters and situations by gesture and body movement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An imitator; one skilled in mimicry; a mimic; specifically, a mimic actor; a performer in the ancient farces or burlesques called mimes.
2. n. A dramatic entertainment among the ancient Greeks of Sicily and southern Italy and the Romans, consisting generally of farcical mimicry of real events and persons. The Greek mimes combined spoken dialogue of somewhat simple and familiar character with action; the Roman consisted chiefly of action, often of a coarse and even indecent character, with little speaking. See pantomime.
3. To mimic, or play the buffoon; act in a mime.

Wiktionary

1. n. A form of acting without words; pantomime
2. n. A pantomime actor
3. n. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce
4. n. A performer of such a farce
5. n. A person who mimics others in a comical manner
6. v. To mimic.
7. v. To act without words.
8. v. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use sound.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner; an ancient Greek or Roman form of farce.
2. n. An actor in such representations.
3. n. The art of representing actions, events, situations, or stories solely by gestures and body movements, without speaking; pantomime{3}.
4. n. An actor who performs or specializes in mime{3}; an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression; a pantomime{2}; a pantomimist; a mimer.
5. n. A mimic.
6. v. obsolete To mimic.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only
2. n. a performance using gestures and body movements without words
3. v. imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect
4. n. an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression