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Entry 7 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Muff

/(mŭf)/ · IPA /mʌf/
01 n. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
  1. 1.
    A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
  2. 2.
    A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.(Mech.)
  3. 3.
    A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.(Glass Manuf.)
  4. 4.
    A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.[Colloq.]
  5. 5.
    A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.(Baseball)
  6. 6.
    The whitethroat.(Zool.) [Prov. Eng.]
02 v. t. To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
imp. & p. p. Muffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Muffing
  1. 1.
    To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.