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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Whose mouths must be stopped.         --Titus i. 11.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mouth
       n 1: the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations
            emerge; "he stuffed his mouth with candy" [syn: {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}]
       7: an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of
          your sass" [syn: {sass}, {sassing}, {backtalk}, {back talk},
           {lip}]
       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}, {verbalize}, {verbalise}]
       2: articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She
          mouthed a swear word"
       3: touch with the mouth

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  MOUTH, n.  In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of
  the heart.
  
  

















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