Ventriloquism

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ventriloquism \Ven*tril"o*quism\, n. [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.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ventriloquism
       n : the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come
           from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
           [syn: {ventriloquy}]