To mumble; mutter; speak indistinctly.

noun. The tumid and naked part of the upper lip and nose of ruminants and rodents.

To infold or wrap up, especially in some cloth or woven fabric, so as to conceal from view or protect from the weather; wrap up or cover close, particularly the neck and face; envelop or inwrap in some covering.

To blindfold.

Figuratively, to wrap up or cover; conceal; involve.

To envelop more or less completely in something that deadens sound: used especially of bells, drums, and oars. See muffled.

To restrain from speaking by wrapping up the head; put to silence.

Synonyms Muzzle, etc. See gag.

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

intransitive verb. To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

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

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A pulley block containing several sheaves.

transitive 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.

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

transitive verb. To wrap or fit with something that dulls or deadens the sound of.

noun. Anything that mutes or deadens sound.

noun. A warm piece of clothing for the hands.

noun. A kiln or furnace, often electric, with no direct flames (a muffle furnace)

verb. To wrap up (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection.

verb. To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound.

verb. To mute or deaden (a sound etc.).

verb. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

verb. conceal or hide

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

"His muffle was a wreck, and such by degrees became the condition of all his apparatus."

conquer  curb  inhibit  kiln  soften  

duffel  kerfuffle  reshuffle  ruffle  scuffle  

audible  faint  frantic  hoarse  husky  

acoustic tile  antiknock  antlia  apply to  baffle  

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