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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.0.48 [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.0.48 [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 Caesar, 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) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: {mouth}, {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}, {mouth}]
7: an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [syn: {sass}, {sassing}, {backtalk}, {back talk}, {lip}, {mouth}]
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}, {mouth}, {verbalize}, {verbalise}]
2: articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word"
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