muzzle ring

IMG:content-1520.png:[blocks in formation] *3. To fondle with the mouth close. "The nurse was then muzzling and coaxing of the child."-L'Estrange. to fondle. *B. In trans.: To bring the muzzle or mouth near; "The bear muzzles , and smells to him, puts his nose to his mouth and to his ears."- L ' Estrange. můz-zy, a. [Eng. muse (2); -y.] Absent in mind; bewildered, muddled, tipsy, stupid, confused. "His wife a dull, muzzy old creature." -Mad . D'Arblay : Diary, i. 305. mỹ, *mi, po . pron. or a. [From Mid. Eng. min =mine, by dropping the final n.] Mine; belonging to me. My is only used attributively, and mine as a predicate; thus we say, This is my book, this book is mine.