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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

muz v.²

also muzz

[dial. muzzle, to drink to excess, to make drunk]

to render ‘muzzy’, to bemuse, usu. through drink.

1791		‘Anthony Pasquin’ Shrove Tuesday 26: When the nocturnal orgie’d muzz’d his brain.
1819		P. Egan Key to the Picture of the Fancy going to a Fight 11: The Daffies, when assembled, generally drink together [...] it is a singular circumstance indeed, if a Daffyonian is necessitated to muz solus.
1865		Sat. Rev. (London) 17 June 727/1: A certain judge was in the habit of muzzing himself by plenteous libations .
1882		H. Bradshaw letter in Prothero Memoir (1888) 259: With a very heavy cold on me, which muzzed my head [...] I have been very far from comfortable.
1909		A. Quiller-Couch True Tilda 281: Mother says it comes of muzzing my head with books and then putting two and two together and making ’em five.
1973		G. Black Bitter Tea 165: Drugs don’t seem to have muzzed you.

In derivatives

muzzed (adj.)

tipsy, befuddled by drink.

1786		F. Pilon He Would be a Soldier VI i: And a choice companion he is; only apt to get muzz’d too soon.
1788		J. Woodforde Diary of Country Parson 14 Jan. (1927) III 3: He returned about 3 o’clock, quite muzzed by Liquor.
1801		C. Dibdin Yngr Song Smith 84: Thus Britons doat on being muzz’d.
1825		‘The Birth &c. of Mister Murphy McClahan’ Universal Songster I 38: With the whiskey half-muzzed.
1836		Comic Almanack Mar. 48: While Harlequin half-muzz’d with wine, / Don’t care a rush of Columbine.