Definition of Muzzling

1. Verb. (present participle of muzzle) ¹

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Definition of Muzzling

1. muzzle [v] - See also: muzzle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muzzling

muzzle compensator
muzzle energies
muzzle energy
muzzle loader
muzzle velocities
muzzle velocity
muzzled
muzzleless
muzzlelike
muzzleloader
muzzleloaders
muzzleloading
muzzler
muzzlers
muzzles
muzzling (current term)
muzzy
mvule
mvules
mwah
mwah-mwah
mwah ha ha
mwahaha
mwenge
my
my-
my-way-or-the-highway
my God
my Lord
my arse

Literary usage of Muzzling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1898)
"A no less vexed point is the question of local as against general muzzling. Strange to say, the loudest advocates of universal muzzling are to be found ..."

2. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903)
"Ans.—Muslin de Iain (muzzling Delane, Editor of the Times). When does a man really ill-use his wife? Ans.—When he plays the Dickens with her. ..."

3. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1906)
"... "—muzzling t/1e Times (?) —Punch's 'joke' and its sequel. Once more I'm in the ever-juvenile condition of a ..."

4. A Short History of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the by Charles George Walpole (1885)
"THE muzzling OF THE PARLIAMENT. AD 1613. THE momentous revolution in Ulster had been accomplished through the instrumentality of royal proclamations and ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"criticism or muzzling public opinion. It will not apply to a contract for the sale of a newspaper, whereby it was agreed that the seller would not edit, ..."

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