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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mouthed \Mouthed\, adjective
1. Furnished with a mouth.
2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
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.
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