muzzle

nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues

//ˈmʌzəl//

The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

nom

1
The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]
2
argotA person's mouth.
3
A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
4
The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
5
A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
6
historiqueAn openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Étymologie

From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.

verbe

1
To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
2
figuréTo restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
3
obsolèteTo veil, mask, muffle.
4
obsolèteTo fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes
And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]
5
To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.

Formes

pluriel: muzzles
passé: muzzled
participe passé: muzzled
participe présent: muzzling
3ᵉ personne du singulier: muzzles

mutual · Having the same relationship, each to each other.mutually · In the same way, each to the other; reciprocally.muy · Very.

muzzle · The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

mwah · The sound of a kiss, to indicate blowing a kiss to someone.my · First-person singular possessive determiner. See…my- · Relating to muscle

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