These are the meanings of the letters MULET when you unscramble them.
- Lute (n.)
A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
- Lute (n.)
A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
- Lute (n.)
A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
- Lute (n.)
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or \"sides,\" arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
- Lute (v. i.)
To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
- Lute (v. t.)
To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
- Lute (v. t.)
To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
- Melt (n.)
See 2d Milt.
- Melt (v.)
Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- Melt (v.)
To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.
- Melt (v. i.)
Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.
- Melt (v. i.)
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
- Melt (v. i.)
To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.
- Melt (v. i.)
To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.
- Melt (v. i.)
To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.
- Mule (n.)
A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
- Mule (n.)
A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
- Mule (n.)
A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
- Mule (n.)
A very stubborn person.
- Mute (a.)
Incapable of speaking; dumb.
- Mute (a.)
Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
- Mute (a.)
Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
- Mute (a.)
Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
- Mute (n.)
A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
- Mute (n.)
A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
- Mute (n.)
A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
- Mute (n.)
A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
- Mute (n.)
Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
- Mute (n.)
One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
- Mute (n.)
One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
- Mute (n.)
The dung of birds.
- Mute (v. t.)
To cast off; to molt.
- Mute (v. t. & i.)
To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
- Tule (n.)
A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.