What is "muff"

Usage examples of "muff".

Dorraine was all in white as well: stole, cossack hat, and a muff big enough, it occurred to Alacrity in passing, to hold those cute derringers plus a few landmines for luck.

Most of the cullet was muff, a special kind of glass that was treasured for its flaws rather than its perfection.

Dobber has a pretty fair sort of memory, and he says that Miss Sarah Brown tells The Sky that since he seems to know so much about the Bible, maybe he remembers the second verse of the Song of Solomon, but the chances are Dobber muffs the number of the verse, because I look the matter up in one of these Gideon Bibles, and the verse seems a little too much for Miss Sarah Brown, although of course you never can tell.

She followed her mistress down the stairs, carrying a sapphire-blue kerseymere pelisse and the fur tippet and immense muff the earl had insisted Delia purchase.

But, at all events, Tubby began early to ride Larry, insinuating--when the unhappy fellow had muffed a difficult or purposely confusing question--that perhaps if less time were spent on physical adornment and a little more on mental beautification his chances of graduating would be improved.

A furious clanging of bells broke out of the empty house, followed by muffed gurglings and trumpetings.

He had probably asked Pooch for the honor of asking me, and had muffed it.

They would lie awake of nights, thinking they heard the muffed snapping of roots, as if a thousand acres of the mountain-side were tugging to break away, like the snow from a house-roof, and a hundred thousand trees were clinging with all their fibres to hold back the soil just ready to peel away and crash down with all its rocks and forest-growths.

She gave him chances without end to say something meaningful, but he always muffed it.

Roland bawled something through his megaphone, but it was muffed by the sucking, washing noises of the water between the ships.

She peeled the glove from her right hand, stuck it in her pochette, then picked up the gun and thrust it into her muff.

Het was haar, of die geurige frischheid, die zachte adem ook al haar gedachten verfrischt en doorgeurd had als met een geur van veldbloemen, die den ongezonden muffen reuk van haar vroegere denkbeelden, als een ontzenuwend parfum van musc en opoponax, verdreven had.

Her cloth costume, which displayed to advantage her slender waist and graceful bust, was of simple but elegant cut, and was adorned with superb trimmings of black fox, which matched her toque and a little satin-lined muff, which from time to time she raised to her cheek to ward off the biting wind.

She reached into her muff and withdrew the banknote that Ambrose had provided for just this purpose.

Muff, Ministre Anglican, and borrowing money of him, and of her coaxing and flirting with Milor Noodle, son of Sir Noodle, pupil of the Rev.