lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part
<adj.all>
(usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed
<adj.all> deaf to her warnings
Deaf \Deaf\ (?; 277), v. t. To deafen. [Obs.] --Dryden.
Deaf \Deaf\ (d[e^]f or d[=e]f; 277), a. [OE. def, deaf, deef, AS. de['a]f; akin to D. doof, G. taub, Icel. daufr, Dan. d["o]v, Sw. d["o]f, Goth. daubs, and prob. to E. dumb (the original sense being, dull as applied to one of the senses), and perh. to Gr. tyflo`s (for qyflo`s) blind, ty^fos smoke, vapor, folly, and to G. toben to rage. Cf. {Dum}b.] 1. Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf. --Shak.
2. Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! --Shak.
3. Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
Deaf with the noise, I took my hasty flight. --Dryden.
4. Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened. [R.]
A deaf murmur through the squadron went. --Dryden.
5. Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught. --Holland.
He is a leader of the whole deaf community." _ Gallaudet University student Sherri Lambert, commenting on the uproar caused by the appointment of a new president of the college for the deaf who is not deaf herself and does not understand sign language.
He is a leader of the whole deaf community." _ Gallaudet University student Sherri Lambert, commenting on the uproar caused by the appointment of a new president of the college for the deaf who is not deaf herself and does not understand sign language.
He is a leader of the whole deaf community." _ Gallaudet University student Sherri Lambert, commenting on the uproar caused by the appointment of a new president of the college for the deaf who is not deaf herself and does not understand sign language.
Bravin said the board would form a task force to study its own composition in reponse to student demands that deaf people comprise a majority of the 20-member panel.
The letter was the brainchild of Bouley's controller, Kevork K. Kalayjian, a 10-year veteran of the bill-paying business, who felt his oft-repeated productivity lessons to vendors were falling on deaf ears.
Today he must visit a single mother whose needs include counseling help for her withdrawn daughter, a school for her deaf son and diapers for her 10-month-old baby.
At the time of her death, Mrs. Garfinkle was bedridden, deaf, and blind in one eye.
Columbia and Decca were equally deaf.
The agency quoted the Serbian party as saying: "The Vojvodina leadership has been deaf to the demands of the working class and other citizens.
She is now deaf in her left ear, has only partial sight in her left eye and faces more plastic surgery on her face.
"I was in the back seat the whole way," he said. "I was dressed as an Arab, playing deaf and dumb." Hawkins said he crossed into Jordan after walking about six miles through the desert.
But some provinces have turned a deaf ear to the capital.
And colleagues say he turned a deaf ear to market speculation and heavy trading in JWT's stock that began early this year.
The selection of Elisabeth Zinser, a hearing woman, as president of the nation's only school for the deaf kicked off a protest that has virtually paralyzed the campus since Monday.
In 1787, Thomas H. Gallaudet, a pioneer of educating the deaf, was born in Philadelphia.
Peggy's climactic speech to her mother will no doubt be applauded by every deaf person who's ever contended with the ignorance of the hearing world: "I learned to speak for you, but you never learned to sign for me.
A 3-year-old born deaf is learning to use an electronic device implanted in his ear to transmit sound and help him hear.
"The government cannot act as if were deaf, dumb and blind in the face of this massive protest," said Manuel Carvalho da Silva, a leader of the Communist-dominated General Confederation of Portuguese Workers.
The board now has just four deaf members.
Katherine Ingold, a member of the search committee, said deaf applicants would not be given special preference.
He would have to have been as deaf as a truck tire not to hear the talk of food.
The board now has four deaf members.
FBI Special Agent Paul Cavanagh in Boston had said the woman was a deaf teen-ager believed to have been kidnapped about three years ago in northern California, possibly by satanists.
"God made the world in seven days and we have changed it in seven days," Charles A. Giansanti, a deaf chemistry professor, told the crowd.
We are not deaf or blind.' Mr Husseini, who has close ties to the Palestine Liberation Organisation, has been denied a formal role in the talks because Israel has objected to sitting down with Arabs from Jerusalem.
But a year later, the spirit of the "Deaf President Now" protest lives on _ in newfound pride and assertiveness among the deaf, in heightened awareness and understanding among the hearing.
The administration turned a deaf ear to pleas from American manufacturers and farmers who contended that they were being battered by an over-valued dollar which had made their goods uncompetitive on world markets.
I have to do it that way to get people's attention." Many hearing people learning to sign at nearby universities stop by to find patient conversation partners, and maybe even learn a few deaf jokes.
One of his brothers, Frank, went deaf at the age of nine.
Nikolai Rekhovskii, now 67 and going deaf but once a wartime bomber pilot, finds it hard to believe that everything has been given away.