muzzle sight

Ordn.: The front sight, screwed into the swell of the muzzle of a gun or the muzzle band of a how itzer. It is of iron or steel, equal in height to the dispart or difference between the semi-diameters of the base-ring and muzzle. muzzle-stopper, s. Ordn.: A tompion, to close the mouth of a gun. muzzle-strap, s. Manège: A broad strap, which is buckled around a horse's mouth to stop his biting. mŭz-zle, *mos-el, v. t. & i. [MUZZLE, 8.] A. Transitive: I. Lit .: To bind the mouth with a muzzle, so as to prevent from biting or eating. "Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn."-1 Cor. ix. 9. II. Figuratively : 1. To restrain from hurt. "My dagger muzzled Lest it should bite its master." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , i. 2. Zool.: Howler. A genus of Platy rhine or New World Monkeys, family Cebide (q. v.). They are the largest American monkeys, some being nearly three feet in length exclusive of the prehensile tail. The thumb is not opposable, but is in a line with the other fingers. The voice is extraordinarily res onant, owing to a bony drum, formed by a convexity of the os hyoides , and communicating with the larynx. Ten species are known, from the forests of tropical America between East Guatemala and Paraguay.