mute

• The other is the `yellow-headed' (_Cygnus olor_); and this last also is known as the mute or tame swan, because it is that species most commonly seen in a tame state upon the ornamental lakes and ponds of England. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
• These young persons had hereupon no instant exchange of words; their exchange was mute--they but paused where they were; while the silence of each evidently tested the other for full confidence. —  The Outcry
• They carry their own provisions and those for the beast, now and then dismounting to lead the horse over difficult ground, and now and then blazing a tree to help them in their return journey--mute testimony to the cruder senses of the white man to whom woodcraft never becomes instinctive. —  The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
• "The little rift within the lute" would be making the best man's music mute, and now would be her time to play angel unawares again She would trip in lightly, humming a song perhaps, and finding him moody and downcast, would begin the conversation with some appropriate quotation. —  The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
• Let him remain mute, and his question shall be answered. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)

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