ventriloquy n 1: the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) [syn: {ventriloquism}, {ventriloquy}]
Ventriloquy \Ven*tril"o*quy\, n. [Cf. F. ventriloquie.] Same as {Ventriloquism}. [1913 Webster]