mute adj
1. expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: tongueless, unspoken, wordless]
2. lacking power of speech [syn: tongueless]
3. unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, silent] n
4. a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb person}]
5. a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument v : deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]

Mute \Mute\, v. t. [L. mutare to change. See Molt.] To cast off; to molt. Have I muted all my feathers? --Beau. & Fl.

Mute \Mute\, v. t. & i. [F. mutir, ['e]meutir, OF. esmeltir, fr. OD. smelten, prop., to melt. See Smelt.] To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds. --B. Jonson.

Mute \Mute\, n. The dung of birds. --Hudibras.

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