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verb

Muffle v. t. (past & past part. muffled; pres. part. muffling)

To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; often with up. "The face lies muffled up within the garment." "He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes." "Muffled up in darkness and superstition."

To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

To wrap or fit with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock; to muffle the exhaust of a motor vehicle.

Muffle v. i. To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

noun

Muffle n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; used esp. of ruminants.

Muffle n.

Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.

(Metal.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.

(Ceramics) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.

A pulley block containing several sheaves.

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Etymology of 'Muffle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Muffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... hamlet, two cottages, three public-houses, and a duck-pond, and that sort of thing. I only know it because Welch and I ran there once last year. It's in the Badgwick direction, about three miles by road, mostly along the level. I vote we muffle up fairly well, blazers and sweaters and so on, run to Worbury, tea at one of the cottages, and back in time for lock-up. How does ...

— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse

... graveyard, and it's proper to muffle the drums and lower the flags as we go by, and we'd better take off our hats, too; ...

— Eight Cousins • Louisa M. Alcott

... cords of American artillerymen. Their identification is a surprise to the dreamer, because one rather expects these figures to sulk in the deeper shadows and screen their dark, bearded faces with the broad brims of black felt hats or muffle themselves to the chin in long, flowing black cloaks that hide rapiers and stilettos and other properties of ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... existence than the temple. Some of its windows too were aglow; the lower casements opened upon the lawn; curtains concealed the interior, and partly obscured the ray of the candles which lit it, but they did not entirely muffle the sound of voice and laughter. We are privileged to enter that front door, and to penetrate ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... half an hour, and then, that no precaution might be omitted, the crew were ordered to muffle their oars. This done, we resumed our way, but at a much quieter pace, the land rising up before us an uniform black mass against the deep violet of the star- studded sky, without the faintest suggestion of detail of any kind whereby to direct our course. How ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

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