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Mouth Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Mouth?
[n] the opening of a jar or bottle; "the jar had a wide mouth"
[n] 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" [n] the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [n] an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass" [n] the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson" [n] 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" [n] a person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed" [n] (informal) a spokesperson (as a lawyer) [v] express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" [v] articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" [v] touch with the mouth Synonyms | Synonyms for Mouth: back talk | backtalk | lip | mouthpiece | sass | sassing | speak | talk | utter | verbalise | verbalize Related Terms | Find terms related to Mouth: 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 | Brillat-Savarin | 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 | 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buccal cavity | bumble | cackle | cakehole | chant | chatter | cheek | clack | clapper | comeback | communicate | counter | cytostome | deliver | dentition | dissemble | drone | drone on | eater | ejaculate | enthuse | face | falter | feeder | feign | formation | gabble | gap | generalise | generalize | geological formation | geology | gibber | gingiva | glossa | gob | gulp | gum | hiss | hole | human face | impertinence | impudence | inflect | intercommunicate | interpreter | intone | jabber | jar | jaw | lingua | lingual artery | lingual vein | lip | lip off | lip-sync | lip-synch | maunder | maw | modulate | mouth | mouth off | mumble | murmur | mussitate | mutter | neb | nib | open up | opening | opening | opening | oral cavity | oral fissure | orifice | palate | palaver | pecker | phonate | piffle | porta | prate | prattle | present | pretend | rabbit on | rant | rasp | rattle on | rave | read | rejoinder | replication | representative | retort | return | rima | rima oris | riposte | roof of the mouth | salivary gland | sham | shoot one's mouth off | shout | sibilate | sing | siss | sizz | slur | snap | snarl | snivel | speak in tongues | speak up | spokesperson | spout | stammer | stutter | swallow | talk about | talk of | tattle | teeth | tittle-tattle | tongue | touch | trap | troll | twaddle | vena lingualis | vocalise | vocalize | voice | whiff | whine | whisper | yack | yack away | yap | yap away Mouth In Webster's Dictionary \Mouth\ (mouth), n.; 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 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.
The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
--Ps. lxiii.
11.
Whose mouths must be stopped. --Titus i. 11.
\Mouth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mouthed}; 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. ``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. \Mouth\, v. i. 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. |
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