mutes

1. A stopped consonant; a stop.
2. An actor who does not speak; a mime performer.
3. A person who does not have the power of speech.
4. A hired mourner at a funeral; an undertaker's assistant.
5. An object for dulling the sound of an instrument, especially a brass instrument, or damper for pianoforte; a sordine.
6. An electronic switch or control that mutes the sound.
7. A mute swan.

1. To silence, to make quiet.
2. To turn off the sound of.

   Please mute the music while I make a call.

noun

The faeces of a hawk or falcon.

verb

Of a bird: to defecate.

verb

To cast off; to moult.