Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The trade-name of an appliance for enabling the deaf to hear, constructed on the analogy of the telephone.
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The akouphone, a blessing to the deaf, was exhibited, as were also the powerful search-lights now a necessity at sea.
History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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