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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..

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

Dumbledor :: Dumbledor (n.) A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer..

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

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

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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.

Dummy :: Dummy (n.) One who is dumb.

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

Dumb-bell :: Dumb-bell (n.) A weight, consisting of two spheres or spheroids, connected by a short bar for a handle; used (often in pairs) for gymnastic exercise..

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