Not expressed strongly or openly. / (of a sound) Quiet or soft. / (of color) Subdued.

simple past tense and past participle of mute

The dung of birds. / The process by which something is muted or silenced.

present participle of mute

In a mute manner.

(phonetics, now obsolete) A stopped consonant; a stop. / (obsolete, theater) An actor who does not speak; a mime performer. / A person who does not have the power of speech.

(transitive) To silence, to make quiet. / (transitive) To turn off the sound of.

(transitive) To cast off; to moult.

(now rare) Of a bird: to defecate.

The faeces of a hawk or falcon.