mouth
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Synonyms: couth, youth, moth, month, fouth, douth, south, mout, louth, routh, mouch
Antonyms: couth, youth, moth, month, fouth, douth, south, mout, louth, routh, mouch
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Noun
- {{senseid|en|Q9635}}{{lb|en|anatomy}} The front [[opening]] of a [[creature]] through which [[food]] is [[ingest]]ed.
- The end of a [[river]] out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a [[tributary]] out of which water flows into a larger river.
- An [[outlet]], [[aperture]] or [[orifice]].
- {{lb|en|slang}} A [[loud]] or overly [[talkative]] person.
- {{lb|en|slang}} A [[gossip]].
- {{lb|en|saddlery}} The [[crosspiece]] of a [[bridle]] [[bit]], which enters the mouth of an animal.
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[principal]] [[speaker]]; one who utters the common opinion; a [[mouthpiece]].
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} Speech; language; testimony.
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
Verb
- {{senseid|en|speak or utter (words)}} {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[speak]]; to [[utter]].
- {{senseid|en|represent (words or sounds) orally but soundlessly}} {{lb|en|transitive}} To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of [[speech]], but silently, without producing sound; to [[frame]].
- {{senseid|en|move the mouth or form (words) with the mouth, with or without sound}} {{lb|en|transitive|intransitive}} To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound.
- {{lb|en|figurative}} {{ellipsis of|en|mouth the words}}; to speak insincerely.
- {{senseid|en|utter in a loud discordant voice}} {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling.
- To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth)
- {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[pick up]] or [[handle]] with the [[lips]] or mouth, but not [[chew]] or [[swallow]].
- To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
- To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
- To carry in the mouth.
- {{lb|en|obsolete}} To [[make mouths at]]
- To form a mouth or [[opening]] in.
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