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Semiimute :: Semiimute (a.) Having the faculty of speech but imperfectly developed or partially lost.

Commutable :: Commutable (a.) Capable of being commuted or interchanged.

Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech.

Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A keeping silent or mute.

Metamorphose :: Metamorphose (v. t.) To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.

Mute :: Mute (v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.

Semimute :: Semimute (n.) A semimute person.

Pantomime :: Pantomime (a.) Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance..

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 :: 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..

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..

Mute :: Mute (n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone..

Mute :: Mute (n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

Shut :: Shut (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g..

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..

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..

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..

Silence :: Silence (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness..

Tenuis :: Tenuis (n.) One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages..

Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.

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