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Mouth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

9. Every coffee house has some statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

10. Cry; voice.

11. The fearful dogs divide,

12. All spend their mouth aloft, but none abide.

13. In Scripture, words uttered. Job 19:16 . Isaiah 49:2 . Psalms 73:9 .

14. Desires; necessities. Psalms 103:5 .

15. Freedom and boldness of speech; force of argument.

16. Luke 21:15 .

17. Boasting; vaunting. Judges 9:38 .

18. Testimony. Deuteronomy 17:6 .

19. Reproaches; calumnies. Job 5:15 .

20. To make a mouth to distort the mouth;

21. To make mouths, to make a wry face; hence, to deride or treat with scorn.

22. To pout; to treat disdainfully.

23. Down in the mouth dejected; mortified.

24. To have God's law in the mouth to converse much on it and delight in it. Exodus 13:9 .

25. 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 .

26. A froward mouth contradictions and disobedience. Proverbs 9:1 .

27. A smooth mouth soft and flattering language. Proverbs 5:3 .

28. 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 .

29. To set the mouth against the heavens, to speak arrogantly and blasphemously. Psalms 73:9 .

Mouth [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant; as a mouthing actor.

2. I'll bellow out for Rome and for my country,

3. And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.

Mouth [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; as, to mouth words or language.

2. Twitch'd by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more.

3. To take into the mouth; to seize with the mouth

4. To chew; to grind, as food; to eat; to devour.

5. To form by the mouth as a bear her cub. [Not used.]

6. To reproach; to insult.

Mouth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;

3. 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.

4. The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.

5. The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.

6. The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

7. The entrance into a harbor.

8. The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

9. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

10. Cry; voice.

11. Speech; language; testimony.

12. A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

Mouth [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.

2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.

3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

Mouth [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.

3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.

4. To make mouths at.

Mouth-footed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.

Mouth-made [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt.

Mouthed [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. MOUTH'ED , pp. Uttered with a full, swelling, affected voice.

2. Taken into the mouth; chewed.

Mouthed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Furnished with a mouth; used chiefly in composition; as well-mouthed; foul-mouthed, contumelious, reproachful or obscene; mealy-mouthed, bashful, reserved in speaking the plain truth; hard-mouthed, as a horse, not obedient to the bit, difficult to be restrained or governed by the bridle.

2. Borne down or overpowered by clamor.

Mouthed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Furnished with a mouth.

2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.

Mouthed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mouther [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who mouths; an affected speaker.

Mouthfriend [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who professes friendship without entertaining it; a pretended friend.

Mouthful [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. As much as the mouth contains at once.

2. A quantity proverbially small; a small quantity.

Mouthful [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.

2. Hence, a small quantity.

Mouthfuls [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mouthhonor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Civility expressed without sincerity.

Mouthing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Uttering with an affected swelling voice.

Mouthing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mouthless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Destitute of a mouth.

Mouthless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Destitute of a mouth.

Mouthmade [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Expressed without sincerity; hypocritical.

Mouthpiece [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The piece of a musical wind instrument to which the mouth is applied.

Mouthpiece [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.

2. An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid.

3. One who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party.

Mouths [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Genesis 4:11

And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 8:11

And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

Genesis 24:57

And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

Genesis 29:2

And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:3

And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.

When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:8

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

Genesis 29:10

And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Genesis 42:27

And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his money; for, behold, it was in his sack’s mouth.

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.

Genesis 43:12

And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:

Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 43:21

And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

Genesis 44:1

And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Then Joseph instructed his steward: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

Genesis 44:2

And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

Put my cup, the silver one, in the mouth of the youngest one’s sack, along with the silver for his grain.” So the steward did as Joseph had instructed.

Genesis 44:8

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

Genesis 45:12

And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

Behold! You and my brother Benjamin can see that I, Joseph, am the one speaking with you.

Exodus 4:11

And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Exodus 4:12

Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”

Exodus 4:15

And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.

Exodus 4:16

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.

Exodus 13:9

And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD’S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 23:13

And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.