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Such is the case with most of those who never speak from
childhood; they are not ordinarily dumb, but mute
because they are deaf, and therefore never learn to talk; and hence
their more appropriate name is deaf-mutes.

They spake not a word;

But, like dumb statues, or breathing stones,

Gazed each on other.

Shak.

All sat mute,

Pondering the danger with deep thoughts.

Milton.

Mute, n. 1. One
who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness,
or other cause. Specifically: (a) One who,
from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use
articulate language; a deaf-mute. (b) A
person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
(c) A person whose part in a play does not
require him to speak. (d) Among the Turks,
an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can
not speak.

2. (Phon.) A letter which represents
no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of
speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the
passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k,
t.

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