Visible speech

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them.

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By-speech
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.