muzzle
muzzle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun.
- 2.A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting. With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound Dryden. Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.
- 3.To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action. "My dagger muzzled." Shak. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deut. xxv.
- 4.2. To fondle with the closed mouth. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
- 5.To bring the mouth or muzzle near. The bear muzzles and smels to him. L'Estrange.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- all
- and
- any
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- awful
- bated
- better
- border
- breath
- breathless
- brim
- brink
- broken
- brow
- chaps
- childish
- chops
- coast
- confine
- could
- cracked
- cut
- dead
- deaf
- deathlike
- door
- doubt
- drop
- drown
- dry
- dumb
- dumbness
- dumfounder
- dummy
- dysphony
- edge
- edging
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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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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