Word Meanings - MUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To cast off; to molt. Have I muted all my feathers Beau. & Fl.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MUTE)
- Dumb
- Inarticulate
- mute
- silent
- still
- confused
- inorganic
- Taciturn
- Silent
- reserved
- inconversible
- uncommunicative
- close
- pauciloquous
- reticent
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MUTE)
Related words: (words related to MUTE)
- STILLY
Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore. - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - STILLBIRTH
The birth of a dead fetus. - CONFUSIVE
Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall. - INORGANICAL
Inorganic. Locke. - CONFUS
Confused, disturbed. Chaucer. - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - INARTICULATELY
In an inarticulate manner. Hammond. - PROTRACTIVE
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden. - STILLING
A stillion. - INARTICULATE
1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an - STILLAGE
A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight. - CLOSEFISTED
Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne. - INARTICULATED
Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint. - STILLION
A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying. - CONDUCTIVITY
The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces - STILLROOM
1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens. - INORGANIC
Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series - RESERVOR
One who reserves; a reserver. - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - PISTILLIFEROUS
Pistillate. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - DISTILLABLE
Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable. - DISTILLATION
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible - FINESTILLER
One who finestills. - INSTILLATOR
An instiller. - INCLOSER
One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.