Definition of mute

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

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Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..
Whist :: Whist (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.
Mute :: Mute (a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2..
Deaf-mute :: Deaf-mute (n.) A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it..
Silent :: Silent (a.) Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative.
Pantomime :: Pantomime (a.) Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance..
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..
Semimute :: Semimute (n.) A semimute person.
Transmutable :: Transmutable (a.) Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable..
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To be changed, altered, or transformed; to become transmuted; also, to become by a change or changes; to grow; as, wood turns to stone; water turns to ice; one color turns to another; to turn Mohammedan..
Whist :: Whist (v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
Silence :: Silence (n.) Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness..
Mutism :: Mutism (n.) The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech..
Sordine :: Sordine (n.) See Damper, and 5th Mute..
Obmutescence :: Obmutescence (n.) A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
Metamorphose :: Metamorphose (v. t.) To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
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..
Speechless :: Speechless (a.) Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent.
Mute :: Mute (v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
Alchemy :: Alchemy (n.) An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry..
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