muffle1 (mufl)

[ G. muffel ) = OF. mofle, moufle, a kind of mitten or muff, F. moufle, a muff, a muffle, = Sp. mufla = It. muffola, a muff or mitten, This day I did first wear a muffle , being my wife's last year's muffle . Pepys , Diary, Nov. 30, 1662. (Encyc. Dict .) 2. A boxing-glove. Just like a black-eye in a recent scuffle (For sometimes we must box without the muffle ). Byron, Don Juan, ii. 92. 3. Same as muffler (c).-4. A cover or wrap, especially one used to deaden sound. Yesterday morning he sent for the officer on guard, and ordered him to take all the muffles off the drums. Greville, Memoirs, July 18, 1830. me. mug A plague upon him! muffled ! He can say nothing of Shak ., All's Well, iv. 3. 134. Mufled pagans know there is a God, but not what this God is. Rev. T. Adams, Works, III. 160. (Davies.) A sort of muffled rhyme - rhyme spoilt by the ends being blunted or broken off. Craik , Hist. Eng. Lit., II. 94. Muffled drum. See drum 1. - Muffled oars, oars having mats or canvas put round their looms when rowing, to prevent them from making a noise against the tholes or in the rowlocks.