muzzle

MUZ'ZLE, noun 1. The mouth of a thing; the extreme or end for entrance or discharge; applied chiefly to the end of a tube, as the open end of a common fusee or pistol, or of a bellows.2. A fastening for the mouth which hinders from biting.With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound.MUZ'ZLE, verb transitive To bind the mouth; to fasten the mouth to prevent biting or eating.Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deuteronomy 25:4.1. To fondle with the mouth close. [Low.]2. To restrain from hurt.My dagger muzzled--MUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To bring the mouth near.The bear muzzles and smells to him