bemuffle, v.
(bɪˈmʌf(ə)l)
[f. be- 1 + muffle v.]
To muffle up; often fig. Hence beˈmuffled ppl. a.
| 1583 Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 111 The earth with the shaads of night was darcklye bemuffled. 1611 Cotgr., Emmouflé..bemuffled, wrapped, or lapped close within (warme) clothes. 1760 Sterne Serm. Yorick. III. 225 So bemuffled with the externals of religion, that he has not a hand to spare for a worldly purpose! |