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Deaf-mute   Listen
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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. "Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Deaf-mute" Quotes from Famous Books



... intention is declared in writing;[65] and in Louisiana a deaf man is incapable of acting as a witness to a testament.[66] In several states, as New York and Massachusetts, there have been enactments in regard to deaf-mute immigrants together with other classes who might be likely to become a public charge, with the exaction of bond as security.[67] In Georgia[68] there is an enactment in reference to various itinerant concerns ...
— The Deaf - Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their - Education in the United States • Harry Best

... and other relations are often in the same condition, yet their parents are very rarely deaf-mutes. To give a single instance: not one scholar out of 148, who were at the same time in the London Institution, was the child of parents similarly afflicted. So again, when a male or a female deaf-mute marries a sound person, their children are most rarely affected: in Ireland out of 203 children thus produced one alone was mute. Even when both parents have been deaf-mutes, as in the case of forty-one marriages ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

... black, the chief of the eunuchs, came and touched her on the shoulder. 'Whither now, friend?' said Jehane. He pointed the way, being a deaf-mute. 'Lead,' said she; 'I will follow.' ...
— The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay • Maurice Hewlett

... of his origin showed that a male cousin had died raving mad, a female cousin had died in an asylum, a great-uncle on the maternal side had been crazy and had committed suicide; another cousin was weak-minded and subject to fits; another, a deaf-mute, had died in an asylum; another great-uncle was a drunkard and a loafer; one sister was an idiot, the other had run away from home, and a brother ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... populace to the number of about fifteen—the Chinamen refusing to countenance any outfit harbouring such a terrible engine of the devil as a photographic apparatus—assembled on the beach to give us God-speed. The cheerful conception of this service on the part of a deaf-mute was to fill the air with violent gestures to indicate—and it was vivid enough—that we could not possibly escape destruction. One of his series represented with uncomfortable clearness a drowning man ...
— The Romance of the Colorado River • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

... its "submerged tenth." Insanitary conditions are improved, the rooms by law enlarged, the air is sweetened, the water is purified, the homes are drained. The delicate and diseased are taken to our hospitals, the deaf and blind to our deaf-mute institutions, the deformed and the fatherless to our orphan homes. And all are carefully nursed as tender precious plants. They are snatched from Nature's clutch and reared as prize stock are reared and kept in clover, till they can propagate ...
— The Fertility of the Unfit • William Allan Chapple



Words linked to "Deaf-mute" :   silent person, deaf-and-dumb, dummy, deaf-and-dumb person, deaf person, deaf-muteness, deaf



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