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To cast off; to molt. Have I muted all my feathers Beau. & Fl.

See Moot-hill. [Scot.]

Without uttering words or sounds; in a mute manner; silently.

The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.

In Turkey, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They are appointed directly by the Sultan.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

r 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. The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participa…

One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

A cornemuse. [Obs.]

ailed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it. [See Illust. of Dactylology.] Deaf-mutes are still so called, even when, by artificial methods, they have been taught to speak imperfectly.

To change or alter. [Obs.] J. Salkeld.

A keeping silent or mute. Paley.

To exchange; to barter; to traffic. [Obs.] Bought, trucked, permuted, or given. Hakluyt.

One who permutes.

A semimute person.

into another; to transform. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.

One who transmutes.

To change by alchemy; to transmute. Lovelace.

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.

A stroke; a blow. He, with a careless beat, Struck out the mute creation at a heat. Dryden.