Muffle, muf′l, v.t. to wrap up as with a muff: to blindfold: to cover up so as to render sound dull, as a bell or a drum: to cover from the weather.—n. something used for smothering sound: a boxing-glove: a clay oven, as for firing pottery.—adj. Muff′led, wrapped up closely: dulled or deadened—of sound.—n. Muff′ler, a cover that muffles the face. [Muff.]
Muffle, muf′l, v.i. to mumble.
Mufti, muf′ti, n. a doctor or official expounder of Mohammedan law in Turkey: the dress of an officer off duty. [Ar.]
Mug, mug, n. a kind of earthen or metal cup for liquor, its contents.—ns. Mug′ger (Scot.), a tramping tinker or vendor of earthenware; Mug′-house, an alehouse; Mug′-hunt′er, one who competes at games merely for the prizes. [Ir. mugan, a mug, mucog, a cup.]
Mug, mug, n. the human face, the mouth.
Muggins, mug′inz, n. a children's card-game played with a full pack divided equally, each in turn laying down a card face up, the first one who calls 'Muggins' when one matches another adding his card to the other's pile, the aim being to get out as soon as possible. [Ety. dub.]
Muggletonian, mug-l-tō′ni-an, n. a member of a sect founded in England by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton (1607-97), which lingered till well into the 19th cent. They claimed to be the two witnesses of Rev. xi. 3-6, denied the Trinity, holding grotesque anthropomorphist opinions, with many strange doctrines over and above, as that the devil became incarnate in Eve, &c.
Muggy, mug′i, adj. foggy: close and damp, as weather: wet or mouldy, as straw.—Also Mug′gish. [Ice. mugga, mist; cf. Gael. mugach, cloudy.]
Mugwort, mug′wurt, n. a common British species of wormwood.
Mugwump, mug′wump, n. an Indian chief: a person of great importance, or who thinks himself so: a humorous political use of the above. [Algonkin mugquomp, a great man.]