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A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Meniere, a French physician.
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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.
n.
Deafness.
v. t.
Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.
a.
Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
a.
Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
v. t.
To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
a.
Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
imp. & p. p.
of Deafen
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Deafen
a.
Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
v. t.
To free from deafness; to cause to hear.
n.
A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
n.
The condition of being a deaf-mute.
n.
One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a 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.
a.
As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
n.
An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
a.
Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
v. t.
To deafen.
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