MUZ'ZLE, n. 1. The mouth of a thing; the extreme or end for entrance or discharge; applied chiefly to the end of a tube, as the open end of a common fusee or pistol,or of a bellows.2. A fastening for the mouth which hinders from biting. With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound.MUZ'ZLE, v.t. To bind the mouth; to fasten the mouth to prevent biting or eating. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deut.25.1. To fondle with the mouth close. [Low.]2. To restrain from hurt. My dagger muzzled--MUZ'ZLE, v.i. To bring the mouth near. The bear muzzles and smells to him.
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