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The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.
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Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
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A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
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The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
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A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally.
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A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.
n.
A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
v. t.
To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
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Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
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The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.
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A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.
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Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
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Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show.
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Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb.
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One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist.
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The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.
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Incapable of speaking; dumb.
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Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.
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Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
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A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
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