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• Mouth

  ·noun Cry; voice. II. Mouth ·vt To make mouths at. III. Mouth ·noun The entrance into a harbor. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• mouth

  [the Anglo-Saxon muda]. The embouchure opening of a port or outlet of a river, as Yarmouth, Tynemout...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bird's-mouth

  ·noun An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of anot...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mouth-footed

  ·adj Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Mouth-made

  ·adj Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• round mouth

  The fundament. Brother round mouth, speaks; he has let a fart. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• gully-mouth

  a small pitcher. Dev. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• word of mouth

  To drink by word of mouth, i.e. out of the bowl or bottle instead, of a glass. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hand to mouth

  'To live from hand to mouth,' is said of a person who spends his money as fast as he gets it, who ea...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Bull and Mouth Inn

  On the south side of Bull and Mouth Street, in Aldersgate Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831). Burnt ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bull and Mouth Street

  West out of St. Martin le Grand to King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within and Aldersgate Ward...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• shove in the mouth

  A dram. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• down in the mouth

  Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• weeks of the mouth

  The sides of it. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• down in the mouth

  Low-spirited or disheartened. ...

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• wry mouth and a pissen pair of breeches

  Hanging. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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