Definition of mute

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Mute (a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2..

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Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A keeping silent or mute.
Mute :: Mute (n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
Media :: Media (n.) One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute..
Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry..
Silence :: Silence (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness..
Mute :: Mute (n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t..
Mute :: Mute (n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause..
Cornamute :: Cornamute (n.) A cornemuse.
Transmute :: Transmute (v. t.) To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform..
Transmuted :: Transmuted (imp. & p. p.) of Transmut.
Voiceless :: Voiceless (a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb..
Mute :: Mute (n.) The dung of birds.
Permute :: Permute (v. t.) To exchange; to barter; to traffic.
Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..
Transmutation :: Transmutation (n.) The act of transmuting, or the state of being transmuted; as, the transmutation of metals..
Soft :: Soft (superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard..
Alchemize :: Alchemize (v. t.) To change by alchemy; to transmute.
Liquid :: Liquid (n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids..
Mute :: Mute (a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
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