A person who acts in a mummers' play or (originally) in a mime. Also in extended use. See mummers' play, n.

One who disguises. One who dresses himself up in order to act in a pageant; a masker or mummer, a guiser, n.

One who guises (see guise, v. 3); a masquerader, a mummer. (Cf. guisard, n.2, geezer, n.)

One who goes about in a fantastic guise or dress; a masquerader, a mummer. See also guiser, n.

= guiser, n.