muzzle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: muzzle	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for muzzle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muzzle n the open circular discharging end of a gun [syn: {gun muzzle}, muzzle] forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose 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 restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting Synonym(s): gag, muzzle v fit with a muzzle; "muzzle the dog to prevent it from biting strangers" Antonym(s): unmuzzle prevent from speaking out; "The press was gagged" Synonym(s): gag, muzzle tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them; "The burglars gagged the home owner and tied him to a chair" Synonym(s): gag, muzzle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muzzle \Muz"zle\, n. [OE. mosel, OF. musel, F. museau muzzle or snout, LL. musellus, fr. musus, morsus. See {Muse}, v. i., and cf. {Morsel}.] 1. The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout. 2. The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun. 3. 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 --Dryden. {Muzzle sight}. (Gun.) See {Dispart}, n., 2.
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. [bd]My dagger muzzled.[b8] --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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muzzle \Muz"zle\, v. i. To bring the mouth or muzzle near. The bear muzzles and smels to him. --L'Estrange.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Muzzle Grain in the East is usually thrashed by the sheaves being spread out on a floor, over which oxen and cattle are driven to and fro, till the grain is trodden out. Moses ordained that the ox was not to be muzzled while thrashing. It was to be allowed to eat both the grain and the straw (Deut. 25:4). (See {AGRICULTURE}.)