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To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or disc…

To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate; as, to break silence; to break one's sleep; to break one's journ…

A sarcasm by which one is put to silence; anything that can not be answered.

Silence; hush.

To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

To put to silence.

The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponen…

To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow…

Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence.

To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

To derive by deduction or by induction; to conclude or surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusi…

The mutual influence, under certain conditions, of two streams of light, or series of pulsations of sound, or, generally, two waves or…

To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one…

The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpo…

Silence.

A game of hazard played with cards in silence.