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unˈmuzzle, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
trans. To free (a dog, etc.) from a muzzle; to remove the muzzle from. Also fig.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. ii. 74 Cel. How proue you that in the great heape of your knowledge? Ros. I marry, now unmuzzle your wisedome. 1639T. de la Grey Expert Farrier 280 Put a muzell upon his mouth..and the next morning unmusell him. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. vi. 5 Why Did that corrected Twilight of his eye Vnmussle darknesse, and with morning light Redeeme the day from new baptized night? 1791Burke Let. to Memb. Nat. Assemb. Wks. VI. 43 The hell-hounds of war, on all sides, will be uncoupled and unmuzzled. 1854Emerson Soc. Aims Wks. (Bohn) III. 181 Beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian. 1891Daily News 22 Jan. 3/7 Her dog was muzzled. They un⁓muzzled him when they got home.
Hence unˈmuzzling vbl. n.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 37 A licentious unmuzzling from all restraint. 1898Daily News 2 Dec. 5/1 The unmuzzling of London dogs. |