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Dumb Down(money)
Dumb(medicine)
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Fes (sh) and Dumb (medicine)


Fes (sh)




or Fez Arabic Fas

City (pop., 1994: 541,162), northern Morocco.

The oldest of Morocco's four imperial cities, it was founded on opposite banks of the Wadi Fes by Idris I งใ 789 and Idris II งใ 809. The two parts were united by the Almoravid dynasty in the 11th century to become a major Islamic city. Fes reached its zenith under the Marinid dynasty as a centre of learning and commerce in the mid-14th century and has kept its religious primacy through the ages. The site of the oldest mosque in northern Africa, it is also the seat of an Islamic university founded in 859. A centre for trade and traditional Crafts, it was until the late 19th century the only place where the fez hat was made.


Dumb (medicine)


dumb


1. Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate sounds; as, the dumb brutes. "To unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures." (Hooker)

2. Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show. "This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him." (Shak) "To pierce into the dumb past." (J. C. Shairp)

3. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour. "Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun colour." (De Foe) Deaf and dumb. See Deaf-mute. Dumb ague, or Dumb chill, a form of intermittent fever which has no well-defined "chill." Dumb animal, any animal except man; usually restricted to a domestic quadruped; so called in contradistinction to man, who is a "speaking animal." Dumb cake, a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands.

<botany> Dumb cane, a west Indian plant of the Arum family (Dieffenbachia seguina), which, when chewed, causes the tongue to swell, and destroys temporarily the power of speech. Dumb crambo. See crambo. Dumb show. Formerly, a part of a dramatic representation, shown in pantomime. "Inexplicable dumb shows and noise." . Signs and gestures without words; as, to tell a story in dumb show. To strike dumb, to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

Synonym: Silent, speechless, noiseless. See Mute.

Origin: AS. Dumb; akin to D. Dom stupid, dumb, Sw. Dumb, Goth. Dumbs; cf. Gr. Blind. See Deaf, and cf. Dummy.

Source: Websters Dictionary