plural of mute

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mute

Not having the power of speech; dumb. / Silent; not making a sound.

(phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop. / (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. / A person who does not have the power of speech.

(transitive) To silence, to make quiet. / (transitive) To turn off the sound of.

(now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.

The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

(transitive) To cast off; to moult.

The characteristic of being mute.

In a mute manner.