mouth

MOUTH, noun 1. The aperture in the head of an animal, between the lips, by which he utters his voice and receives food. In a more general sense, the mouth consists of the lips, the gums, the insides of the cheeks, the palate, the salival glands, the uvula and tonsils. 2. The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied; as the mouth of a jar or pitcher. 3. The part or channel of a river by which its waters are discharged into the ocean or into a lake. The Mississippi and the Nile discharge their waters by several mouths. 4. The opening of a piece of ordnance at the end, by which the charge issues. 5. The aperture of a vessel in animal bodies, by which fluids or other matter is received or discharged; as the mouth of the lacteals. 6. The opening or entrance of a cave, pit, well or den. Daniel 8:1. 7. The instrument of speaking; as, the story is in every body's mouth 8. A principal speaker; one that utters the common opinion. Every coffee house has some statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. 9. Cry; voice. The fearful dogs divide, All spend their mouth aloft, but none abide. 10. In Scripture, words uttered. Job 19:16. Isaiah 49:2. Psalms 73:9. 11. Desires; necessities. Psalms 103:5. 12. Freedom and boldness of speech; force of argument. Luke 21:15. 13. Boasting; vaunting. Judges 9:38. 14. Testimony. Deuteronomy 17:6. 15. Reproaches; calumnies. Job 5:15. To make a mouth to distort the mouth; To make mouths, to make a wry face; hence, to deride or treat with scorn. 1. To pout; to treat disdainfully. Down in the mouth dejected; mortified. To have God's law in the mouth to converse much on it and delight in it. Exodus 13:9. To draw near to God with the mouth to make an external appearance of devotion and worship, while there is no regard to him in the heart. Isaiah 29:13. A froward mouth contradictions and disobedience. Proverbs 9:1. A smooth mouth soft and flattering language. Proverbs 5:3. To stop the mouth to silence or to be silent; to put to shame; to confound. Romans 3:14. lay the hand on the mouth to be struck silent with shame. Micah 7:5. To set the mouth against the heavens, to speak arrogantly and blasphemously. Psalms 73:9. MOUTH, verb transitive To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; as, to mouth words or language. Twitch'd by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more. 1. To take into the mouth; to seize with the mouth 2. To chew; to grind, as food; to eat; to devour. 3. To form by the mouth as a bear her cub. [Not used.] 4. To reproach; to insult. MOUTH, verb intransitive To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant; as a mouthing actor. I'll bellow out for Rome and for my country, And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.