the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Dung of birds.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The act or process of damping or deadening the sound, as of a musical instrument.
n. The act of passing excrement: said of fowls; also, the dung of fowls.
Word Usage
"If you succeed in muting all your critics to the left, all you do is create a situation where your program is defined in the press and the congress and the public imagination as the most-leftwing-possible proposal."