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DUMB ANIMAL

Definition: DUMB ANIMAL

DUMB ANIMAL

1. 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. --Halliwell.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: DUMB ANIMAL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Absence or want of Intellect

Moron, imbecile, idiot; fool; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-dead.

Animal

Beast, brute, creature, critter, wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DUMB ANIMAL

Language Translations for "DUMB ANIMAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Swedish

  

oskäliga djur. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DUMB ANIMAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-i-l-m-m-n-u"

-2 letters: bimanual, labdanum.

-3 letters: albumin, alumina, ladanum, mailman, maudlin.

-4 letters: abulia, aidman, alumin, alumna, alumni, animal, audial, baalim, badman, imbalm, indaba, labium, lambda, lamina, landau, lumina, madman, manila, manual, unlaid.

-5 letters: adman, aland, album, almud, amain, amnia, anima, banal, binal, blain, bland, blind, build, daman, dulia, dunam, imaum, labia, lamia, lanai, lauan, liana, liman, limba.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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