dummy

1. Dummy
   A floating barge connected with a pier.
2. Dummy
   (Railroad) A locomotive with condensing engines, and, hence, without the noise of escaping steam; also, a dummy car.
3. Dummy
   A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.
4. Dummy
   A thick-witted person; a dolt.
5. Dummy
   An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
6. Dummy
   Fictitious or sham; feigned; as, a dummy watch.
7. Dummy
   One who is dumb.
8. Dummy
   (Drama) One who plays a merely nominal part in any action; a sham character.
9. Dummy
   Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
10. Dummy
    (Card Playing) The fourth or exposed hand when three persons play at a four-handed game of cards.

1. (n) dummy
   One who is dumb; a dumb person; a mute.
2. (n) dummy
   One who is silent; specifically, in theatrical, a person on the stage who appears before the lights, but has nothing to say.
3. (n) dummy
   One who or that which lacks the reality, force, function, etc., which it appears to possess; something that imitates a reality in a mechanical way or for a mechanical purpose. Specifically— Some object made up to deceive, as a sham package, a wooden cheese, an imitation drawer, etc.
4. (n) dummy
   In mech.:
5. (n) dummy
   A dumb-waiter.
6. (n) dummy
   A locomotive with a condensing-engine, and hence avoiding the noise of escaping steam: used especially for moving railroad-cars in the streets of a city, or combined in one with a passenger-car for local or street traffic.
7. (n) dummy
   The name given by firemen to one of the jets from the mains or chief water-pipes.
8. (n) dummy
   A hatters' pressing-iron.
9. (n) dummy
   In card-playing:
10. (n) dummy
    An exposed hand of cards, asin whist when three play.
11. (n) dummy
    A game of whist in which three play, the fourth hand being placed face up. One player, with this and his own hand, plays against the other two.
12. dummy
    Silent; mute.
13. dummy
    Sham; fictitious; feigned: as, a dummy watch.
14. (n) dummy
    Proofs of pages of composed type pasted down upon a larger leaf in proper order, to show the general arrangement of an intended book or pamphlet.
15. (n) dummy
    The dealer's partner at bridge.
16. (n) dummy
    In the game of rounce, an extra hand of 6 cards in the center of the table.
17. (n) dummy
    A person who is put forward (by interested parties in the background) in some capacity in connection with a matter in which he has no real concern or as to which he is the mere tool of his movers: for example, as an incorporater or a director of a bank, a railway, or other company, in order to satisfy some statutory requirement as to number, place of residence, or the like, or as in Australia, when the public lands were thrown open, one who made application for an allotment in his own name, but really on behalf of another who had already made his own ‘selection.’
18. (n) dummy
    A horse affected with dumminess, which follows an acute inflammation of the brain. See dumminess, 2.
19. dummy
    To act as a dummy. See dummy, 6.

1. Dummy
   one who is dumb: a mere tool of another, man of straw: a sham package in a shop: the fourth or exposed band when three persons play at whist

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