Usually means: Covering for animal's mouth, nose.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. muzzle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. muzzle: Merriam-Webster
  3. muzzle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. muzzle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. muzzle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. muzzle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Muzzle, muzzle: Wordnik
  8. muzzle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. muzzle: Wiktionary
  10. muzzle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. muzzle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. muzzle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Muzzle, muzzle: Dictionary.com
  14. muzzle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. muzzle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MU.ZZ.LE, Muzzle (anatomy), Muzzle (band), Muzzle (device), Muzzle (disambiguation), Muzzle (firearm), Muzzle (firearms), Muzzle (mouth guard), Muzzle (song), Muzzle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Muzzle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. muzzle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. muzzle: Rhymezone
  20. Muzzle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. muzzle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Muzzle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. muzzle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. muzzle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. muzzle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muzzle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muzzle (animal), muzzle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. muzzle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Muzzle (animal), muzzle: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muzzle: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. muzzle, muzzle, muzzle, muzzle, muzzle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Muzzle: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. muzzle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See muzzled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
noun:  (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
noun:  A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
noun:  (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
noun:  (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
verb:  (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
verb:  (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

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