noun.
A workman's name for a covering of many folds of flannel cloth tied over the nose and mouth of one who is engaged in removing bleaching-powder from the chambers in which it is made, and in packing it, to afford protection from the chlorin gas and the fine dust suspended in the air. A sponge moistened with water is sometimes used in the same way.
noun.
A chain clevis or shackle.
To bind or confine the mouth of in order to prevent biting or eating.
Figuratively, to gag; silence.
. To mask.
. To fondle with the closed mouth; nuzzle.
To grub up with the snout, as swine do.
To handle or pull about.
To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
To drink to excess; guzzle.
To loiter; trifle; skulk.
noun.
The projecting jaws and nose of an animal, as an ox or a dog; the snout.
noun.
The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge: applied chiefly to the end of a tube, as the open end of a gun or pistol.
noun.
Anything which prevents an animal from biting, as a strap around the jaws, or a sort of cage, as of wire, into which the muzzle (def. 1) is inserted.
noun.
In armor, an openwork, covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
noun.
A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached: same as bridle, 5.
noun.
Muzzle-energy, the energy of a shot when it leaves the muzzle of a gun, expressed by the formula = foot-tons of energy, w representing the weight of shot in pounds and v the velocity in feet per second.