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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.

Dumb :: Dumb (v. t.) To put to silence.

Pantomime :: Pantomime (n.) A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally..

Chorus :: Chorus (n.) An interpreter in a dumb show or play.

Lift :: Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

Prolepsis :: Prolepsis (n.) 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..

Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech.

Elinguid :: Elinguid (a.) Tongue-tied; dumb.

Dumb :: Dumb (a.) Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show..

Manichordon :: Manichordon () The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

Dummerer :: Dummerer (n.) One who feigns dumbness.

Dumbly :: Dumbly (adv.) In silence; mutely.

Mute :: Mute (a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.

Sign :: Sign (n.) 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..

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.

Dactylology :: Dactylology (n.) The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

Dumb :: Dumb (a.) Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes..

Deaf-mute :: Deaf-mute (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..

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth..

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