Deaf-mute: alternatives and connections

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.

a hearing that takes place outside the judicial process before hearing examiners who have been granted judicial authority specifically…

Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of…

The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by t…

The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for…

see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exa…

a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citatio…

Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect…

The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and…

To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.

Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of…

Failing; fault; imperfection, whether physical or moral; blemish; as, a defect in the ear or eye; a defect in timber or iron; a defect…

A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness,…

Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes.