Definition of Deaf-aid

1. Noun. An electronic device that amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing.

Exact synonyms: Hearing Aid
Generic synonyms: Electronic Device

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaf-aid

deadwoods
deadworks
deae-cellulose
deae-dextran
deae ex machinis
deaerate
deaerated
deaerates
deaerating
deaeration
deaerations
deaerator
deaerators
deaf
deaf(p)
deaf-aid (current term)
deaf-and-dumb
deaf-and-dumb person
deaf-blindness
deaf-mute
deaf-muteness
deaf-mutes
deaf-mutism
deaf and dumb
deaf as a doorpost
deaf as a post
deaf person
deaf to(p)
deafblind
deafblindness

Literary usage of Deaf-aid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of medical jurisprudence by Theodric Romeyn Beck (1825)
"When Mr. Clerc, the distinguished teacher of the deaf aid dumb at Hartford, visited Albany, he informed me, that he was one of the pupils who assisted in ..."

2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1859)
"A MEMOIR OF THOMAS HOPKINS GALLAUDET, with a History of Deaf Mute Instruction, and account of the American Asylum for the Deaf aid Dumb in Hartford ; with a ..."

3. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1905)
"... Dutch ministers that they were at last ready to accept the proposal to which they had so long turned a deaf aid, they would throw off the Spanish yoke. ..."

4. Annual Report of the New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf by New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb (1861)
"This is little less than to say that, in order that the deaf aid dumb may learn language as hearing people do, by observation, imitation and use, ..."

5. Biennial Reports of the Secretary of State by Wisconsin Office of the Secretary of State (1920)
"SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AID TO CONSOLIDATED RURAL SCHOOLS No. 6, town Lawrence, Brown county $1500.00 No. ..."

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