Definition of muff

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Muff (n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.

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Crumpet :: Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider..
Rag :: Rag (n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin..
Muffler :: Muffler (n.) A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) 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..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.
Muffling :: Muffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muffl.
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) 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..
Unmuffle :: Unmuffle (v. t.) To remove the muffling of, as a drum..
Muff :: Muff (v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it..
Muff :: Muff (n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold..
Unmuffle :: Unmuffle (v. t.) To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover..
Muff :: Muff (n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
Galley :: Galley (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
Hollow :: Hollow (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar..
Muff :: Muff (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Whitethroat :: Whitethroat (n.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca)..
Tatterdemalion :: Tatterdemalion (n.) A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.
Muffle :: Muffle (v. i.) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation..
Ragamuffin :: Ragamuffin (n.) A person who wears ragged clothing.
Ustulation :: Ustulation (n.) The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle..
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