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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

3 entries under this word

Mouth

Mouth, n.

noun

n. [A.-S. & O. Sax. mûdh, O. Fries. mûth, mund, Icel. mudhr, munnr, Sw. mun, Dan. & N. H. Ger. mund, O. H. Ger. munt, D. mond, Goth. munths.]

  1. The opening in the face or fore part of the head through which food is received and the voice uttered; the aperture between the lips; also, the cavity within the lips, containing the jaw, teeth, and tongue.
  2. Hence, an opening; 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, &c. (b.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. (c.) The opening of a piece of ordnance at which the charge is introduced, and from which, when fired, it issues. (d.) The opening through which the waters of any body or collection of water are discharged into another; as, the mouth of a river, a harbor, and the like.
  3. A principal speaker; one that utters the common opinion; a mouth-piece.

Every coffee-house has some statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. Addison. 4. Cry; voice. The fearful dogs divide; All spend their mouth aloft, but none abide. Dryden. 5. A wry face; a distortion of countenance; a grimace; a mowe. Persevere, counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. Shak. Down in the mouth, chap-fallen; of dejected countenance; depressed; mortified.—To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound.

Mouth, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. MOUTHED; p. pr. & vb. n. MOUTHING.]

Sense 1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth; to chew; to devour. Dryden.

Now he feasts, mouthing the flesh of men. Shak.

Sense 2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. “Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes.” Tennyson. “Imbecility self-complacently mouthing big phrases.” Hare.

Sense 3. To form by the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. [Obs.] Browne.

Sense 4. To reproach; to insult. [Rare.] Blair.

Mouth, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant. I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Cæsar, till I shake the senate. Addison.