▪ I. muzzled, ppl. a.1
(ˈmʌz(ə)ld)
[f. muzzle n.1 or v.1 + -ed.]
1. Wearing a muzzle.
| 1530 in Ancestor (Oct. 1904) 182 A beyres hede sable mouseled geules. a 1550 in Baring-Gould & Twigge West. Armory (1898) 4, 3 beares' heads erased arg: musled or. 1595 Shakes. John ii. i. 249. 1716 Gay Trivia ii. 408 Led by the nostril, walks the muzzled bear. 1850 A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 110 Three bears' heads muzzled. |
| fig. 1647 May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 They would faine be at something were like the Masse that will not bite; a muzzled Religion. 1647 Trapp Comm. Rom. iii. 20 Those misled and muzled souls. 1789 Burns Elegy on 1788 vi, Thou now hast got thy daddy's chair, Nae hand-cuff'd, mizzl'd, hapshackl'd Regent, But, like himsel', a full free agent. |
† 2. Muffled; veiled; masked. Obs.
| 1581 in Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 38 Certain ‘musselled men’. 1582 Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 495 Certane uther musalit men on horsback, in weirlike maner, with pistolettis. 1588 Churchyard Spark Friendship C 3 b, The musled faces couered with counterfaite good maners. |
▪ II. † muzzled, ppl. a.2 Obs.
Also 7 muzzeld.
[? repr. OF. meslé, pa. pple. of mesler to mingle, mix (see meddle, mell v.). Cf. muzzle a.]
? Speckled with white or grey.
| 1630 Tinker of Turvey 12 His blacke lockes dangling downe, Curl'd and knotty muzzeld beard. 1858 Lytton What will he do ii. iv, It [sc. a horse] was a dark muzzled brown. |