muzzle
IPA: mˈʌzʌɫ
noun
- The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
- (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
- A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
- (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
- (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
- (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
verb
- (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
- (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
- (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
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Examples of "muzzle" in Sentences
- Dogs wear muzzles in public.
- The unfinished side faces the muzzle.
- The hair on the muzzle is short and fine.
- The bomb was loaded into the barrel muzzle.
- The dark mask on the muzzle spreads on to the skull.
- The mucosas are unpigmented except of the dark muzzle.
- Despite the handicap of a muzzle, the dog was the winner.
- The axes of the muzzle and the cranial region are parallel.
- The successor to the muzzle loader was the breech loading rifle.
- The loop of the noose was tightened around the muzzle of the horse.