[syn: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise]
2. articulate silently; form words with the lips only;
- Example: "She mouthed a swear word"
3. touch with the mouth;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mouth \Mouth\ (mou[th]), v. t. [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.
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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.
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Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. --Tennyson.
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3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her
cub. --Sir T. Browne.
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4. To make mouths at. [R.] --R. Blair.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mouth \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.
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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.
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3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters
the mouth of an animal.
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4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a
mouthpiece.
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Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman
belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street
where he lives. --Addison.
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5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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6. Speech; language; testimony.
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That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every
word may be established. --Matt. xviii.
16.
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7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
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Counterfeit sad looks,
Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak.
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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.
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The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
--Ps. lxiii.
11.
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Whose mouths must be stopped. --Titus i. 11.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mouth \Mouth\, v. i.
1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to
vociferate; to rant.
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I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country,
And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.
--Addison.
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2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.] --Shak.
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3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
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Well I know, when I am gone,
How she mouths behind my back. --Tennyson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mouth
n 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"
v 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"
3: touch with the mouth
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of
the heart.