dumowaiter

A movable frame for conveying food, ., from one story or room of a building to another. The ordinary form is a suspended, counterpoised cupboard, moving within a vertical chute, which has openings at the respective stories, at which the dishes may be placed on the shelves and removed therefrom. speak and to understand what is said to them by a close attention to the muscular action of the lips of the speaker. The advocates of the new system declare that it is greatly superior to dactylology, and the different states of the Union are more or le interested in introducing it among their pupils in the various asylums. In Philadelphia there is already (1894) in operation a school which receives state support. dū-mě-töşe, a. [Lat. dumet ( um )=a thicket, and Eng. adj. suff. -ose.] Bot.: Bushy, bush-like. dum-found, dumb'-found ( b silent), v . t. [Eng. dumb , and Mid. Eng. found to strike.] To strike dumb, to overwhelm with confusion. (Southey: Letters, iv. 569.) +dăm-found-er, v. t. [A freq. from dumfound (q. v.).] 1. To dumfound, to strike dumb. 2. To confuse, to stupefy. *dum-found-er-ment, *dumb-found-er-ment, s. [Eng. dumfounder; -ment.] Confusion, stupefaction. "A state of mind and body made up one half of be numbment, the other half of dumbfounder ment."-Black wood's Magazine, March, 1880, p. 368. *dumb-found-ing, pr . par ., a . & 8 . A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: A game popular in the seventeenth century, in which the players"dumbfounded" each given. ( Dryden : Prol . to The Prophete .) *dumb ( b silent), v . t . & i. [DUMB, a.] 1. Trans .: To make dumb or silent; to silence, to other with sudden blows on the back stealthily confound. "Deep clerks she dumbs ; and with her neeld composes Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch or berry." Shakesp.: Pericles, v. (Introd.) 2. In trans.: To become or be dumb or silent; to hold one's tongue. "I dumbed and meked, and was ful stille.' Early Eng. Psalter, Ps. xxxviii. 3. dumb-found (b silent), v . t . [DUMFOUND.] dum-ble-dör, dum-ble-döre, s. [Eng. dumble , from the noise of the insects, and Eng. dor (q. v.).] IMG:content-0638.png:[blocks in formation] boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, cell, chorus, -tian = shạn. -tion, -sion = shun; -cian, 2. Mutene , silence; abstention from speech. "There was speech in their dumbne ." - Shakesp .: Winter's Tale , v. 2. 3. Refusal or unwillingne to speak. "'Tis love, said she: and then my downcast eyes, And guilty dumbne , witne ed my surprise." Dryden. Ovid; Heroides xi. *4. Show or gesture without words; pantomime; dumb-show. "To the dumbne of the gesture one might interpret." Shakesp.: Timon, i. 1. IMG:content-0639.png:[blocks in formation] (1) Sham or empty drawers, packages, cases. ., in shops, made up as though containing goods for the purpose of show or appearance. (2) Alay figure in the establishments of drapers', clothiers', ., used to show off articles of clothing, styles of dre , or of dre ing hair. 3. A mere sham or imitation. "The Executive Senate, a mere dummy of legislative wisdom and authority." -Quarterly Review. 4. A dumb-waiter (q. v.). 5. A floating barge connected with a pier. II. Technically: 1. Eng .: A locomotive with condensing engines for city travel, and consequently avoiding the noise of escaping steam. [STREET-LOCOMOTIVE.] 2. Hat - making : A tool of box-wood, shaped like a smoothing-iron, and used by hat-makers in glo ing the surface of silk hats. IMG:content-0640.png:[blocks in formation] chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. -sious = shus. -ble, -dle, . = bel, del. zhun. -tious, -cio us, -tion, -şion = (2) A game of whist with a dummy. 4. The at .: A person who appears on the stage, but has no words to speak. Double -dummy: Cards: A game at whist in which two persons only take part, the two other hands being exposed, dummy-car, s . A pa enger-car having an engine and boiler in an end compartment.