MPage 286
- English Word Mute Definition To cast off; to molt.
- English Word Mute Definition To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
- English Word Mute Definition The dung of birds.
- English Word Mute Definition Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
- English Word Mute Definition Incapable of speaking; dumb.
- English Word Mute Definition Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
- English Word Mute Definition Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
- English Word Mute Definition One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
- English Word Mute Definition One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
- English Word Mute Definition A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
- English Word Mute Definition A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
- English Word Mute Definition Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
- English Word Mute Definition A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
- English Word Mute Definition A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
- English Word Mute-hill Definition See Moot-hill.
- English Word Mutely Definition Without uttering words or sounds; in a mute manner; silently.
- English Word Muteness Definition The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.
- English Word Mutic Definition Alt. of Muticous
- English Word Muticous Definition Without a point or pointed process; blunt.
- English Word Mutilate Definition Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
- English Word Mutilate Definition Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
- English Word Mutilate Definition A cetacean, or a sirenian.
- English Word Mutilate Definition To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.
- English Word Mutilate Definition To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.
- English Word Mutilated Definition of Mutilate
- English Word Mutilating Definition of Mutilate
- English Word Mutilation Definition The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
- English Word Mutilator Definition One who mutilates.
- English Word Mutilous Definition Mutilated; defective; imperfect.
- English Word Mutine Definition A mutineer.