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mute
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Definition:1. To cast off; to molt.2. To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.3. A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Have I muted all my feathers
Beaumont & Fletcher
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All the pigeons, to the number of thirty-five, flew to and fro over the men's heads and muted upon them from mid-air; George Orwell. Animal Farm, p.47 (1946)
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The mutes shouldered the coffin and bore it in through the gates.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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