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▸ adjective: Silent; not making a sound.
▸ adjective: Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
▸ adjective: Not giving a ringing sound when struck; said of a metal.
▸ noun: (phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop.
▸ noun: (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
▸ noun: A person who does not have the power of speech.
▸ noun: A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
▸ noun: (music) An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
▸ noun: An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
▸ noun: A mute swan.
▸ verb: (transitive) To silence, to make quiet.
▸ verb: (transitive) To turn off the sound of.
▸ verb: (now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.
▸ noun: The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cast off; to moult.
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