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muzzled


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Muzzle  \Muz"zle\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Muzzled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Muzzling}.]  [F.  museler.] 
  1.  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  ``My  dagger 
  muzzled.''  --Shak. 
 
  Thou  shalt  not  muzzle  the  ox  when  he  treadeth  out 
  the  corn.  --Deut.  xxv. 
  4. 
 
  2.  To  fondle  with  the  closed  mouth.  [Obs.]  --L'Estrange. 




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