vt a pulley block containing several sheaves.
2. muffle ·vi to speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
3. muffle ·noun the bare end of the nose between the nostrils;
used ·esp. of ruminants.
4. muffle ·vt anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
5. muffle ·vt a small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
6. muffle ·vt 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.
7. muffle ·vt to prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
8. muffle ·vt 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.
9. muffle ·vt 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.