muffle
muffle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 8 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguishing folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. South. The face lies muffled up within the garment. Addison. He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. Dryden. Muffled up in darkness and superstition. Arbuthnot.
- 2.To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
- 3.To wrap 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.
- 4.To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
- 5.Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
- 6.(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.
- 7.(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.
- 8.A pulley block containing several sheaves. Knight.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- air
- alembic
- all
- and
- andiron
- any
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- area
- athanor
- awful
- backlog
- bakehouse
- bated
- bath
- better
- boiler
- brasier
- breath
- breathless
- broken
- burner
- caboose
- caldron
- camboose
- central
- chamber
- childish
- coal
- combustion
- conservatory
- convective
- could
- cracked
- cracker
- crucible
- cut
- dead
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is muffle.
- What is to prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen called?
- What is to wrap 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 called?
- What is to speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation called?
- What is anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is a pulley block containing several sheaves. Knight called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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