(a) Of animals: without the faculty of speech, mute, dumb; (b) of a person: afflicted with dumbness, mute, dumb; (c) as noun: mute persons, those afflicted with dumbness; ?also, as surname. …

(a) Inability to speak; (b) failure to speak out or preach, reticence. …

(a) To wrap (sth. about sth. else); (b) to place (sth. about, on, or next to sth. else) so as to enfold or enclose; (c) lappen abouten, to surround (sth. with sth. else). …