Mouth
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.
An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
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.
The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
The entrance into a harbor.
The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
Cry; voice.
Speech; language; testimony.
A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
To make mouths at.
To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
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Mouth Quotations
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Voltaire
A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Chanakya
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
Mouth Translations
mouth in Afrikaans is mond
mouth in Danish is mund
mouth in Dutch is bek, muil
mouth in Finnish is suu
mouth in French is bouche, embouchure
mouth in Italian is boca, abboccatura, muso, bocca, imboccatura
mouth in Latin is os
mouth in Norwegian is munn
mouth in Portuguese is boca, foz
mouth in Spanish is boca, desembocadura
mouth in Swedish is mun
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