Muffle: alternatives and connections

To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.

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A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for ba…

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To make soft or more soft.

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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

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That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draug…

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That which damps or checks; as: (a) A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draug…

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of Quell

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of Quell

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Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.

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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.

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Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.

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To cast off; to molt.

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To press again.

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To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…

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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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