intransitive. To mumble or mutter; to chatter.

intransitive. To speak indistinctly or with the lips partly closed; to mutter; †to babble (obsolete).

intransitive. To make sounds with the lips and tongue as an infant (cf. sense 3); to speak inarticulately or indistinctly; to babble, to mumble.

intransitive. To utter inarticulate or indistinct sounds; to mumble, mutter. Of a baby or young child: to make rudimentary attempts at speech; spec.…

intransitive. To speak in a low, barely audible tone with the mouth nearly closed.

intransitive. To recite a prayer (in early use spec. the paternoster), esp. in a rapid, mechanical, or indistinct fashion; to mumble or mutter…

intransitive. To mutter or murmur; to utter rumbling sounds or tones.

To make inarticulate sounds, to mutter.

transitive. To complain of, bemoan; to lament over. In early use: †to mutter, mumble (obsolete).

transitive and intransitive. To say or recite (something) indistinctly; to mumble, babble. Obsolete.

To speak indistinctly, mutter, murmur busily. (Usually somewhat contemptuous.) archaic.

intransitive. To hesitate in speaking; to speak haltingly or indistinctly; to mumble, mutter.

intransitive. To talk meaninglessly, inconsequentially, or monotonously; to drone, blather, or ramble; (occasionally) to mumble. Also transitive with…

In extended use. intransitive. to sup up: (a) to take in, ‘swallow’ (a story); (b) to utter indistinctly, (also) to retract (one's words). Obsolete.

intransitive. To mutter, babble.

To mutter, murmur; to grumble, find fault, complain. Also in extended use.

intransitive. To mutter; to grumble.

intransitive. To mutter.

Probably a compositorial error for muff, v.1 (muffe is the reading in all previous editions of Pagitt's Heresiogr.: cf. quot. 1645 at muff, v.1).

intransitive. To speak indistinctly.

transitive. To utter (words, speech, etc.) thickly or indistinctly, as through an excess of saliva. Frequently with out.

intransitive. To speak or read monotonously, to ‘drone’, mumble.

intransitive. To mumble, to speak inarticulately or indistinctly; to falter in one's speech.