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noun

Muzzle n.

The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun.

A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting. "With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound"

Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.

verb

Muzzle v. t. (past & past part. muzzled; pres. part. muzzling)

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; as, the dictator muzzled all the newspapers. "My dagger muzzled." "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn."

To fondle with the closed mouth. (Obs.)

Muzzle v. i. To bring the mouth or muzzle near. "The bear muzzles and smells to him."

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Etymology of 'Muzzle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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