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ceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. South. The face lies muffled up within the garment. Addison. He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. Dryden. Muffled up in darkness and superstition. Arbuthnot.

protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. Shak.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.

To muffle up.

To take a covering from, as the face; to uncover.

A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. [Obs.]

An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. Dryden.

ounds; as, neckerchief; breastkerchief; and later, handkerchief. He might put on a hat, a muffler, and a kerchief, and so escape. Shak. Her black hair strained away To a scarlet kerchief caught beneath her chin. Mrs. Browning.

water, but not boating them; to cease from work of any kind; to be idle; to rest. -- To muffle the oars, to put something round that part which rests in the rowlock, to prevent noise in rowing. -- To put in one's oar, to give aid or advice; -- commonly used of a person who obtrudes aid or counsel not invited. -- To…

The muffler of an internal-combustion engine.

on of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.