mouth

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1. 1.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.
2. 2.(Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
3. 3.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.
4. 4.Cry; voice. [Obs.] Dryden.
5. 5.Speech; language; testimony. That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. Matt. xviii.
6. 6.7. 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.
7. 7.Whose mouths must be stopped. Titus i.
8. 8.1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. Dryden.
9. 9.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.
10. 10.To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. Sir T. Browne.
11. 11.To make mouths at. [R.] R. Blair.
12. 12.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 Cæsar, till I shake the senate. Addison.
13. 13.To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] Shak.
14. 14.To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back. Tennyson.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is the crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is speech; language; testimony. That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. Matt. xviii called?
• What is 1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. Dryden called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. Sir T. Browne called?
• What is 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 Cæsar, till I shake the senate. Addison called?
• What is to put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] Shak called?
• What is to make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back. Tennyson called?