Definition of mute

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Mute (n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause..

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Whist :: Whist (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
Moot-hill :: Moot-hill (n.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill..
Mute-hill :: Mute-hill (n.) See Moot-hill.
Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.
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..
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..
Muteness :: Muteness (n.) The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.
Dummy :: Dummy (a.) Silent; mute; noiseless; as a dummy engine.
Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A keeping silent or mute.
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..
Silent :: Silent (a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
Mute :: Mute (a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
Voiceless :: Voiceless (a.) Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb..
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..
Commute :: Commute (v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route..
Commuter :: Commuter (n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling..
Inconvertible :: Inconvertible (a.) Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie..
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..
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