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Mouth   /maʊθ/   Listen
Mouth

noun
(pl. mouths)
1.
The opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge.  Synonyms: 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.
3.
An opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge).  "They built a fire at the mouth of the cave"
4.
The point where a stream issues into a larger body of water.
5.
A person conceived as a consumer of food.
6.
A spokesperson (as a lawyer).  Synonym: mouthpiece.
7.
An impudent or insolent rejoinder.  Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, sass, sassing.
8.
The opening of a jar or bottle.
verb
(past & past part. mouthed; pres. part. mouthing)
1.
Express in speech.  Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize.  "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
2.
Articulate silently; form words with the lips only.
3.
Touch with the mouth.



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"Mouth" Quotes from Famous Books



... I remember the whole conversation," said Bressant, pushing up his beard into his mouth and biting it. ...
— Bressant • Julian Hawthorne
... of Champ-de-Mars, and Fatherland's Altar there; with urn of slain Defenders, Carpenter's-level of the Law; and such exploding, gesticulating and perorating, that Herault's lips must be growing white, and his tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth. (Choix ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... and reply, the young man dropped his eye-glass from his eye, and his cigar from his mouth, and stood staring in bewilderment at the commissioner as he sprang into the boat and made for the steamer which was to ...
— Working in the Shade - Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping • Theodore P Wilson
... such kind people and treated us so well, we did not take anything from them, but made sail until we arrived at a body of water which is called the Gulf of Paria. We anchored off the mouth of a great river, which causes the gulf to be fresh, and saw a large village close to the sea. We were surprised at the great number of people to be seen there, though they were without weapons and peaceably disposed. We went ashore with the boats, and they received us with great friendship ...
— Amerigo Vespucci • Frederick A. Ober
... may be laid in humility and contrition of spirit, wherein the inhabiter of eternity delighteth to dwell; we may refer the porch to the mouth of a saint, wherein every holy Jacob erects the pillars of God's praise, calling upon and blessing his name for received mercies; when songs of deliverance are uttered from the doors of his lips. The holy place is the renewed mind, and the windows ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey


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