[sawr-dee-noh; It. sawr-dee-naw] 
[myoot] adjective, mut⋅er, mut⋅est, noun, verb, mut⋅ed, mut⋅ing.| 1. | silent; refraining from speech or utterance. |
| 2. | not emitting or having sound of any kind. |
| 3. | incapable of speech; dumb. |
| 4. | (of letters) silent; not pronounced. |
| 5. | Law. (of a person who has been arraigned) making no plea or giving an irrelevant response when arraigned, or refusing to stand trial (used chiefly in the phrase to stand mute). |
| 6. | Fox Hunting. (of a hound) hunting a line without giving tongue or cry. |
| 7. | a person incapable of speech. |
| 8. | an actor whose part is confined to dumb show. |
| 9. | Law. a person who stands mute when arraigned. |
| 10. | Also called sordino. a mechanical device of various shapes and materials for muffling the tone of a musical instrument. |
| 11. | Phonetics. a stop. |
| 12. | British Obsolete. a hired mourner at a funeral; a professional mourner. |
| 13. | to deaden or muffle the sound of. |
| 14. | to reduce the intensity of (a color) by the addition of another color. |
| sor·di·no (sôr-dē'nō) n. pl. sor·di·ni (-nē) Music A mute for an instrument. [Italian, diminutive of sordo, deaf, mute, from Latin surdus.] |
mute (my&oomacr;t)
adj.
Unable or unwilling to speak. n.
One who does not have the faculty of speech. No longer in technical use, considered offensive.
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