1. a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity; [syn: jew's harp, jews' harp, mouth bow]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mouth bow
n 1: a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed
between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue
while changing the shape of the mouth cavity [syn: jew's
harp, jews' harp, mouth bow]