Mute

mūt, adj. incapable of speaking: dumb: silent: unpronounced.— n. one dumb, or remaining silent: a person stationed by undertakers at the door of a house at a funeral: a stopped sound, formed by the shutting of the mouth-organs, esp. the surds t , p , k , but also applied to the sonant or voiced consonants d , b , g , and even the nasals n , m , ng : ( law ) one who refuses to plead.— v.t. to deaden sound.— adv. Mute′ly .— n. Mute′ne . [Fr.,—L. mut us .]