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Webster 1913 Edition
Ventriloquism
Ven-tril′o-quism
,Noun.
[See
Ventriloquous
.] The act, art, or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person speaking, but from some other source, as from a dummy held by the ventriloquist, from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, etc.