muzzle

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//ˈmʌzəl//

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

sostantivo

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
gergoA 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
storicoAn openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Etimologia

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.

verbo

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
figuratoTo 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
obsoletoTo veil, mask, muffle.
4
obsoletoTo 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.

Forme

plurale: muzzles
passato: muzzled
participio passato: muzzled
participio presente: muzzling
3ª persona singolare: 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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