Definitions for "Muffle"
An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
Large refractory pot set inside the firing chamber forming an inner chamber to contain the pipes firing free from direct contact with the flame.
To wrap or fit with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock; to muffle the exhaust of a motor vehicle.
Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.
conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
ASL Browser
A pulley block containing several sheaves.