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lip-reading

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lip-read (lprd)
v. lip-read (-rd), lip-read·ing, lip-reads
v.tr.
To interpret (utterances) by lip reading.
v.intr.
To interpret utterances by lip reading.
lip-reading
Noun
a method used by deaf people to understand spoken words by interpreting movements of the speaker's lips
lip-reader n
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Just as, with you, the deaf and dumb, if once allowed to gesticulate and to use the hand-alphabet, will never acquire the more difficult but far more valuable art of lipspeech and lip-reading, so it is with us as regards "Seeing" and "Feeling".
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
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