Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
ADJECTIVE: Unable to speak. Mute was the most common way of describing a deaf person in the nineteenth century. In reference to people who are unable to speak, mute and deaf-mute are now often considered objectionable.
An inability or unwillingness to speak.
A 'silent' coin. Same as Anepigraphic.
Lack of speech. See also: elective mutism.
a deaf person who is unable to speak
expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
To run mute, to be silent on the trail; i.e., to trail without baying or barking.
Hounds often run mute, without giving tongue, when they are running hard on a good scent. When a hound habitually runs mute and never speaks to the line it is a serious fault.
A hound that fails to give tongue when following a line.
Muteness is a speech disorder in which a person lacks the power of speech, or chooses not to speak.