LekhoriLekhoriNot having the power of speech; dumb.
Thus, while the mute Creation downward bend / Their sight, and to their Earthy Mother tend, / Man looks aloft; and with erected Eyes / Beholds his own hereditary Skies. / From ſuch rude Principles our Form began; / And Earth was Metamorphos'd into Man.
Silent; not making a sound.
He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire ſtood mute, / And ſilence was in Heav’n: […]
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; said of certain letters.
From Middle English muet, from Anglo-Norman muet, moet, Middle French muet, from mu (“dumb, mute”) + -et, remodelled after Latin mūtus.
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An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
As for the poor honest Maid, whom all the Story is built upon, and who ought to be one of the principal Actors in the Play, she is commonly a Mute in it:
The faeces of a hawk or falcon.
On which was written not in words, But hieroglyphic mute of birds
I Mute as a hauke dothe whan ſhe hath endued her gorge.
To cast off; to moult.
Have I muted all my feathers?