The dank, dripping trees and the misty hills seemed to muffle and deaden the world.

But the hills muffle the sounds beyond them.

The waves lapping the beach helped muffle my footsteps, but no other sound reached my ears, nor could my eyes perceive the slightest movement along the water surface within reach of vision.

It is not prudent to muffle the neck in scarfs, furs, and wraps, unless perhaps during an unusual exposure to cold.

Muffle the eye of day, Ye gloomy clouds (and darker than my deeds, That darker be than pitchy sable night)

Muffle yourself warmly, Esmeralda, and hasten home, for nothing is easier than to catch cold after riding.

O, how these senses muffle Common Sense!

V. invest; cover &c 223; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap^, enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest. vest, clothe, array, dress, dight^, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accounter^, rig, fit out; deck &c (ornament) 847; perk, equip, harness, caparison. wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle.

Furnace N. furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus, combustion chamber; athanor^, hypocaust^, reverberatory; volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier^, salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot; urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons; muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace, electric resistance heat.

render silent &c adj.; silence, still, hush; stifle, muffle, stop; muzzle, put to silence &c (render mute) 581.

silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short.

mumble, mutter; maud^, mauder^; whisper &c 405; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump^; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay^. Adj. stammering &c v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected.

General Hooker had recrossed the river, spreading pine-boughs on the pontoon bridge to muffle the sound of his artillery-wheels.

All these things combined to muffle the clicking sound frequently, yet during little lulls Frank could catch it again.

O muffle muffle, good Graccus, do not taint thy sence With sight of these infectious animalles, 'Less reason in thee have the upper hand To governe sence, to see and shun the sight.

I am so afraid you may suffer; stop talking so fast and muffle yourself more closely in the cape.

I'll drive close to the pavement, and the instant we stop, you must throw the shawl over her head, muffle her up, and whip her in.

But if I thought that a sweater and a pair of leggings could muffle their ears as to what had gone before, I soon found my mistake.

You may mask, you may muffle the body; it is still alive inside, and the ultimate determining thing.

As soon as they had entered a village, their first care was to muffle the church bell, so as to prevent an alarm being rung; or to commence a heavy fire, to give the inhabitants an exaggerated idea of their numbers, and impress them with the feeling that it would be more prudent to stay at home than to venture out into the fray.

"Such are the English knights, I cried, Who all their better feelings hide; Who muffle up their hearts with care, To hide the virtues nestling there, Who neither praise nor blame can bear.

Instead of which, so inveterate is his tendency to muffle up the simplest things in mystery, he replies, "Who then is that faithful and wise steward," &c., &c., and entirely evades reply to the very natural question.]

She would muffle up her features, but it is too late; and she is not only fully exposed to his view, but to that of a hundred other curious eyes.

As you may well suppose, I did not think fit to reveal my odious profession, and though I was unmasked, I contrived so to muffle my hateful visage with my cloak, that it was in a great degree concealed from him.

Then we pushed through a thicket of small fir trees to where we groped along in utter darkness among the big tree trunks on a muffle-footing.