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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.

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

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

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

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

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

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

Adumbrant :: Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth..

Micrococcus :: Micrococcus (n.) 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..

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

Chirology :: Chirology (n.) The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

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

Dumb :: Dumb (a.) Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color..

Dumbness :: Dumbness (n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

Digitorium :: Digitorium (n.) A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

Pantomime :: Pantomime (n.) One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only, without speaking; a pantomimist..

Dumfound :: Dumfound (v. t.) To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment.

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

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

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..

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