muffle

Definitions

1. 1noun

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

2. 2transitive verb

   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.

3. 3transitive verb

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

4. 4transitive verb

   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.

5. 5intransitive verb

   To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

6. 6transitive verb

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

7. 7transitive verb

   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.

8. 8transitive verb

   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.

9. 9transitive verb

   A pulley block containing several sheaves.

10. 10noun

    a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature

11. 11verb

    conceal or hide

    "smother a yawn"

    "muffle one's anger"

    Synonyms

    represssmotherstiflestrangle
12. 12verb

    deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

    Synonyms

    dampdampendullmute