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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mouth \Mouth\ (mouth), noun; pl. {Mouths} (mou[th]z). [OE. mouth, mu[thorn], AS. m[=u][eth]; akin to D. mond, OS. m[=u][eth], G. mund, Icel. mu[eth]r, munnr, Sw. mun, Dan. mund, Goth. mun[thorn]s, and possibly L. mentum chin; or cf. D. muil mouth, muzzle, G. maul, OHG. m[=u]la, Icel. m[=u]li, and Skr. mukha mouth.]
1. The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
2. Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: (a) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. (b) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. (c) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged. (d) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged. (e) The entrance into a harbor.
3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. --Addison.
5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] --Dryden.
6. Speech; language; testimony.
That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. --Matt. xviii. 16.
7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak.
{Down at the mouth} or {Down in the mouth}, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.]
{Mouth friend}, one who professes friendship insincerely. --Shak.
{Mouth glass}, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth.
{Mouth honor}, honor given in words, but not felt. --Shak.
{Mouth organ}. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See {Pandean}. (b) An harmonicon.
{Mouth pipe}, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound.
{To stop the mouth}, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound.
{To put one's foot in one's mouth}, to say something which causes one embarrassment.
{To run off at the mouth}, to speak excessively.
{To talk out of both sides of one's mouth}, to say things which are contradictory. [1913 Webster +PJC]
The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. --Ps. lxiii. 11.
Whose mouths must be stopped. --Titus i. 11.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mouth \Mouth\ (mou[th]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mouthed} (mou[th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mouthing}.]
1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. --Dryden.
2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner; as, mouthing platitudes. ''Mouthing big phrases.'' --Hare.
Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. --Tennyson.
3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. --Sir T. Browne.
4. To make mouths at. [R.] --R. Blair.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mouth \Mouth\, verb (used without an object)
1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at C[ae]sar, till I shake the senate. --Addison.
2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] --Shak.
3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mouth
noun
1: the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: {oral cavity}, {oral fissure}, {rima oris}]
2: the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening; "she wiped lipstick from her mouth"
3: an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge); "he rode into the mouth of the canyon"; "they built a fire at the mouth of the cave"
4: the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson"
5: a person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed"
6: a spokesperson (as a lawyer) [syn: {mouthpiece}]
7: an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: {sass}, {sassing}, {backtalk}, {back talk}, {lip}]
8: the opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth"
verb
1: express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [syn: {talk}, {speak}, {utter}, {verbalize}, {verbalise}]
2: articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word"
3: touch with the mouth
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
263 Moby Thesaurus words for "mouth": Brillat-Savarin, Lucullus, access, announce, aperture, arm, armlet, articulate, audacity, back talk, backchat, bay, bayou, bazoo, be hypocritical, belt, betray, bight, bite, blandish, blow, blubber, blue, board-and-roomer, boarder, boasting, boca, boldness, bombast, bon vivant, brag, braggadocio, bragging, brashness, cannibal, cant, carnivore, champ, chaps, chatter, chaw, cheek, chew, chew the cud, chew up, chomp, chops, claptrap, cock-a-doodle-doo, connoisseur of food, consumer, converse, cove, creek, crestfallen, crow, debate, debouch, debouchment, declaim, dejected, delta, demagogue, despondent, diner, diner-out, disclose, discover, disheartened, dispirited, disrespect, divulge, door, doorway, downcast, drone, eater, eater-out, elocute, embouchure, entrance, entree, entry, enunciate, epicure, estuary, euripus, exit, express, face, feeder, fjord, flesh-eater, flippancy, freshness, frith, fruitarian, fustian, gab, gabble, gas, gasconade, gastronome, gate, gateway, gibber, give away, give lip service, give mouth honor, glutton, gnash, gnaw, gob, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, graminivore, granivore, grimace, grind, gulf, gum, gut, harangue, harbor, herbivore, high liver, hold forth, hot air, hungry mouth, idle talk, impertinence, impudence, inlet, insolence, jabber, jaw, jaws, jowls, kisser, kyle, lactovegetarian, lap, lick, lip, lips, loch, luncher, make a face, make a mouth, man-eater, mandibles, masticate, maunder, maw, maxilla, meat-eater, melancholy, mop, mop and mow, moue, mouthing, mouthpiece, mow, mug, mumble, munch, murmur, mush, mutter, muzzle, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nibble, omnivore, omophagist, opening, oral cavity, orate, orifice, out-herod Herod, outfall, outlet, pantophagist, passage, passageway, patter, perorate, pertness, phytophage, picnicker, plant-eater, play the hypocrite, pout, prate, predacean, premaxilla, presumptuousness, pronounce, puff, pull a face, rabble-rouse, rant, rave, reach, read, recite, reek of piety, render lip service, road, roads, roadstead, rodomontade, rudeness, ruminate, sad, sass, sauce, sauciness, say, snivel, snuffle, soapbox, sob, soft-soap, sorrowful, sound, speak, speak incoherently, speaker, spiel, spill, splutter, spokesperson, spokeswoman, spout, sputter, stoma, strait, straits, susurrate, sweet-talk, talk, tell, tongue, trap, trencherman, tub-thump, unhappy, utter, vaunt, vegetarian, vent, vocalize, voice, wag the tongue, way, way in, way out, whisper, yap
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MOUTH, noun In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
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