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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..

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

Speechless :: Speechless (a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.

Thunderstrike :: Thunderstrike (v. t.) To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle..

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

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.

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..

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

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

Voiceless :: Voiceless (a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dumb-waiter :: Dumb-waiter (n.) A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from one room or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, a piece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves..

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

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