Unmuzzled

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8 or f. prec.] Not muzzled; freed from a muzzle.

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1601. Shaks., Twel. N., III. i. 130. Haue you not set mine Honor at the stake, And baited it with all th’vnmuzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think?

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1604. Nottingham Rec., IV. 275. Kepyng a banddog vnmusselled.

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1669. N. Riding Rec., vi. 138. A weaver presented for keeping a mastiff unmusled.

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1811. W. R. Spencer, Poems, 40. When Pestilence was rife, And all her friends unmuzzled rush’d on life.

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1891. Daily News, 22 Jan., 3/7. His dog … was unmuzzled. Plaintiff’s dog was also unmuzzled.

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