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Definition of Mouth

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. Related Definitions: Affected, Affectedly, Affording, Also, An, And, Animal, Any, Aperture, Are, As, At, Bear, Between, Big, Bit, Bridle, Buccal, By, Cave, Cavity, Charged, Chew, Cleanse, Common, Containing, Contempt, Crosspiece, Cry, Cub, Den, Devour, Discharged, Emptied, Entrance, Exit, Face, Filled, Food, Form, Full, Grimace, Grind, Harbor, Her, In, Into, Is, It, Jar, Kiss, Lacteal, Language, Lick, Loud, Make, Manner, Mouth, Mouthpiece, Mouths, Mow, Of, One, Opening, Opinion, Or, Ordnance, Orifice, Pharynx, Piece, Pit, Pitcher, Principal, Put, Rant, Ridicule, River, Round, Seize, Sonorous, Speak, Speaker, Speech, Strained, Stream, Swelling, Take, Teeth, Testimony, The, Through, To, Tongue, Utter, Vessel, Vociferate, Voice, Well, Which, Who, With, Wry

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 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 A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. Thomas Jefferson I'm me, I live from film to mouth. Alan Rudolph It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Samuel Johnson

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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