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Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures. Hooker.

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

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.

A bumblebee; also, a cockchafer. [Prov. Eng.]

In silence; mutely.

The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

orth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

Faintly representing; typical. Carlyle.

The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.

= Dumbness.

at hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.

Action carried on aside, and commonly in dumb show, while the main action proceeds.

and fingers; a substitute for spoken or written language in intercourse with the deaf and dumb. See Dactylalogy.

An interpreter in a dumb show or play. [Obs.]

rhyming with another word. His similes in order set And every crambo he could get. Swift. Dumb crambo, a game in which one party of players give a word which rhymes with another, which last to be guessed by the opposing party, who represent in dumb show what they think it to be.

vements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb.

atch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. Holland. Deaf and dumb, without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. See Deaf-mute.

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. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.