A warm cover for the hands, usually made of fur or dressed skins.
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1. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
2. A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
3. A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
4. A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
5. A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
6. The whitethroat.
In chimistry, a vessel in the shape of an oblong arch or vault, closed behind by a semi-circular plane, the floor of which is a rectangular plane; or in other words, a little oven to be placed in a furnace, and under which small cupels and crucibles are placed, in which substances are subjected to heat without coming in contact with fuel, smoke or ashes; used in metallurgic operations.
To mutter; to speak indistinctly or without clear articulation.
1. To cover from the weather by cloth, fur or any garment; to cover close, particularly the neck and face.
2. You must be muffled up like ladies.
3. The face lies muffled up within the garment.
4. To blindfold.
7. To cover; to conceal; to involve.
8. They were in former ages muffled in darkness and superstition.
9. In seamanship, to put matting or other soft substance round an oar, to prevent its making a noise.
10. To wind something round the strings of a drum to prevent a sharp sound, or to render the sound grave and solemn.
The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.
2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
3. To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.
5. An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
Covered closely, especially about the face; involved; blindfolded.
A cover for the face; a part of female dress.
1. Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.
4. One who muffles.
Covering closely, especially about the face; wrapping close; involving; blindfolding.
Impotence Roget’s Thesaurus §158
N. impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration|, deliquium|, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch
V. be impotent, not have a leg to stand on, vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents, collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop, go by the board, go by the wayside, go up in smoke, end in smoke, render powerless, deprive of power, disable, disenable, disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands, double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of, throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote, ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns, take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel, break the neck, break the back, unhinge, unfit, put out of gear, unman, unnerve, enervate, emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix, shatter, exhaust, weaken
Adj. powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious
Phr. der kranke mann, "desirous still but impotent to rise", the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
Woman Roget’s Thesaurus §374
N. woman, she, her, female, petticoat, # feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, mrs. lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, frau, frow, vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity, paternity, lesbian, dyke
V. feminize
Adj. female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic
Phr. "a perfect woman nobly planned", "a lovely lady garmented in white", das ewig-weibliche zieht uns hinan, "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected", es de vidrio la mujer, "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen", "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music", varium et mutabile semper femina, "woman is the lesser man"
Pron. she, her, hers
Bungler Roget’s Thesaurus §701
N. bungler, blunderer, blunderhead, marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick, bad hand, poor hand, poor shot, butterfingers, no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab, clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec, galoot, land lubber, fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor, horse marine, fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers, quack, lord of misrule, sloven, slattern, trapes, amateur, novice, greenhorn (learner) 541
Phr. il n'a pas invente' la poudre, he will never set the thames on fire, acierta errando, aliquis in omnibus nullus in singulis
King James Bible KJV Bible
Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible
1 KJV and 2 BSB verses contain “Muff”
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
their pendants, bracelets, and veils;
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.