muzzle

The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]

A person's mouth.

A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.

A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.

Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

To veil, mask, muffle.

To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

Venus her self would sit Muzzling and Gazing them in the Eyes

And now, while they are climbing the pole in another part of the field, and muzzling in a flour-tub in another, the old farmer […] announces to all whom it may concern that a half-sovereign in money will be forthcoming to the old gamester who breaks most heads; […]

To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

The Bear comes directly up to him, Muzzles and Smells to him.