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To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.

To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]

en air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.

or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest. Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton.

The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech. Max Müller.

Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.

Capable of being permuted; exchangeable. -- Per*mut"a*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mut"a*bly, adv.

ble or other vessel containing prepared metal or other matter which is to be thereby transmuted into gold. -- Projection of a point on a plane (Descriptive Geom.), the foot of a perpendicular to the plane drawn through the point. -- Projection of a straight line of a plane, the straight line of the plane connecting t…

uld not come; Now sadder, that you come so unprovided. Shak. The angelic guards ascended, mute and sad. Milton.

The corpse lay in state, with all the pomp of scutcheons, wax lights, black hangings, and mutes. Macaulay.

in form. [Written also shalm, shaum.] Otway. Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute. Drayton.

ure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. H. Sweet.

Forbearance from, or absence of, speech; taciturnity; muteness.

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton.

nt, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.

See Damper, and 5th Mute.

Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.

One of the three surd mutes k, p, t; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g, b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

evoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil. Neh. xiii. 5.

Hence, speechless; mute. "What tongueless blocks were they! would they not speak" Shak.