| • | The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the
   part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and
   decorations; the stage. | 
											
															| • | The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the
   place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or
   other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a
   play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the
   scenes. | 
											
															| • | So much of a play as passes without change of locality or
   time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act;
   a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently
   determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes. | 
											
															| • | The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything
   occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid;
   surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place
   of occurrence, exhibition, or action. | 
											
															| • | An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a
   series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a
   spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view. | 
											
															| • | A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery. | 
											
															| • | An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others;
   often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for
   effect; a theatrical display. | 
											
															| • | To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. |