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Definition of Muzzle
1. Verb. Fit with a muzzle. "Muzzle the dog to prevent it from biting strangers"
2. Noun. The open circular discharging end of a gun.
Group relationships: Gun
Generic synonyms: Opening
Specialized synonyms: Gunpoint, Point
3. Verb. Prevent from speaking out. "They want to muzzle the prisoners "; "The press was gagged"
Generic synonyms: Hush, Hush Up, Quieten, Shut Up, Silence, Still
Derivative terms: Gag
4. Noun. Forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose.
5. Verb. Tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them. "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair"
6. Noun. A leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting.
7. Noun. Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting.
Definition of Muzzle
1. n. The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. i. To bring the mouth or muzzle near.
Definition of Muzzle
1. Noun. the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout ¹
2. Noun. the mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech ¹
3. Noun. a device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout. ¹
4. Noun. (chiefly Scotland) a piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete historical) an openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To bind or confine animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting ¹
7. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence ¹
8. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle ¹
9. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle ¹
10. Verb. (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Muzzle
1. to put a covering over the mouth of to prevent biting or eating [v -ZLED, -ZLING, -ZLES]
Medical Definition of Muzzle
1. The snout of an animal. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muzzle
Literary usage of Muzzle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1865)
"muzzle at notch . 4 " " " middle 2-75 in. Other characters are apparent in the
... Teeth 37—42 ; occiput short, rounded ; breadth of muzzle to length as 1 ..."
2. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"The gun was designed for 3000 foot-seconds muzzle velocity within the limits of
... The old type gun, with smokeless powder, has a muzzle velocity of 2200 ..."
3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"The old type gun, with smokeless powder, has a muzzle velocity of 2200 foot-seconds,
... The muzzle energy of the new gun is, therefore, 78 Per cent, ..."
4. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"muzzle-loading Shell (Parrott Shell). end, just powerful enough to burst the
cylinder and disperse the balls. They are burst by time fuses, or by percussion ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"The Italian gun, for instance, with a projectile weighing 2000 pounds and a muzzle
velocity of 1700 foot-seconds (feet per second), develops only 40000 ..."
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