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

A person who does not speak. Theatre. An actor who performs in mime. Obsolete.

A person who impersonates another; an actor, esp. an inferior one. Obsolete.

Originally: (Classical History) a theatrical performer popular in the Roman Empire who represented mythological stories through gestures and…

An actor in a dumb show; = pantomime, n. 1. Obsolete.

A person who acts in a mime or dumbshow; (hence) a person who has nothing to say. Also used as a nickname, or as the type of a silent person. Now E…

Classical History. A performer in a mime (sense 1a). Obsolete.

An actor in a pantomime; a comic or burlesque actor; (occasionally) a pantomimus; (also) a writer or producer of pantomimes.