5. mute Law. (of a person who has been arraigned) making no plea or refusing to stand trial: to stand mute.
6. (n.)mute a person who does not speak, esp. one who, because of congenital deafness, has never learned to speak.
7. mute Law. a person who stands mute when arraigned.
8. mute a mechanical device for muffling the tone of a musical instrument.
9. (v.t.)mute to deaden or muffle the sound of.
10. mute to reduce the intensity of (a color) by the addition of another color.
Etymology: (1375–1425; ME muet < MF, assimilated, in the 16th cent., to L
Definition of 'mute'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)mute, deaf-mute, deaf-and-dumb person a deafperson who is unable to speak
2. (adj)mute a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument
3. (adj)mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless expressed without speech "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
4. (verb)dumb, mute, silent unable to speak because of hereditary deafness
5. (verb)muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Definition of 'mute'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)mute not speaking; uttering no sound; silent
2. (adj)mute incapable of speaking; dumb
3. (adj)mute not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2
4. (adj)mute not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal
6. (noun)mute one who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause
7. (noun)mute one who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute
8. (noun)mute a person employed by undertakers at a funeral
9. (noun)mute a person whose part in a play does not require him to speak
10. (noun)mute among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak
11. (noun)mute a letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t
12. (noun)mute a littleutensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone
13. mute to eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds
Definitions of mute 
Afrikaans: stom
Arabic: لا يَسْتَطيع الكلام، أخْر
Bulgarian: ням
Brazilian: mudo
Czech: němý
German: stumm
Danish: stum
Greek: μουγγός
Spanish: mudo
Estonian: tumm
Farsi: لال
Finnish: puhumaton
French: muet
Hebrew: אִלֵם
Hindi: मूक
Croatian: nijem
Hungarian: néma
Indonesian: bisu
Icelandic: mállaus
Italian: muto
Japanese: 口のきけない
Korean: 말 못하는
Lithuanian: nebylus
Latvian: mēms
Malay: bisu
Dutch: stom
Norwegian: stum
Polish: niemy
Persian: لال
Pashto: لال
Portuguese: mudo
Romanian: mut
Russian: немой
Slovak: nemý
Slovenian: nem
Serbian: nem
Swedish: stum
Thai: ใบ้
Turkish: dilsiz
Taiwanese: 瘖啞的
Ukrainian: німий
Urdu: گونگا
Vietnamese: câm
Chinese: 哑的
