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Muzzle

noun

1.

The open circular discharging end of a gun. Synonym: gun muzzle.

2.

Forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose.

3.

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.

4.

Restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting. Synonym: gag.

verb

(past & past part. muzzled; pres. part. muzzling)

1.

Fit with a muzzle.

2.

Prevent from speaking out. Synonym: gag.

3.

Tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them. Synonym: gag.

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"Muzzle" Quotes from Famous Books

... ever seen, vast circles widely separated from each other. And other peculiar features will reveal themselves on a close inspection; for instance, the horseshoe form in which, ape-fashion, the teeth are arranged, and the muzzle-like shape of the face due to the absence of the depressions that in our own case run down on each side from just outside the nostrils towards the corners ...

— Anthropology • Robert Marett

... far beyond his years, beaten in the long fight, despairing of justice on earth and hopeless of any heaven, Uriel Acosta leaned droopingly against his beloved desk, put the pistol's cold muzzle to his forehead, pressed the trigger, and fell dead across the open pages of his Exemplar Humanae Vitae, the thin, curling smoke lingering a little ere it dissipated, like the futile spirit of a passing creature—"a wind that passeth ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... towards the officer that wounded him. The man stood motionless, cowering and spellbound, beneath the dilating eye of the robber. It was but for a moment that the man had cause for dread; for muttering between his ground teeth, "Why waste it on an enemy?" Clifford turned the muzzle towards the head of the unconscious steed, which seemed sorrowfully and wistfully to incline towards him. "Thou," he said, "whom I have fed and loved, shalt never know hardship from another!" and with a merciful cruelty he dragged himself one pace nearer to his beloved steed, uttered a well-known ...

— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... from the mouth of Captain Asher; he was choking to death. In the same second that she heard it Olive thrust the muzzle of the pistol against the side of the man's head ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... pressed the muzzle against the prisoner's chest and brought his finger against the trigger slowly ... slowly.... The prisoner turned pale as a corpse; his face lengthened; his eyelids were fixed in a glassy stare. He breathed in agony, his whole body shook as with ague. Blondie kept his gun ...

— The Underdogs • Mariano Azuela

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