Bird's-mouth

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• Mouth

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

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• mouth

  1) A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mouth

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

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• Birds

  [Sparrow] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Mouth-footed

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

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• Mouth-made

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

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• 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

• Bird's nest

  ·noun ·Alt. of Bird's-nest. ...

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• Bird's-beak

  ·noun A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak. ...

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• Bird's-eye

  ·adj Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple. II. Bird's-...

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• Bird's-foot

  ·noun A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, ...

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• Bird's-nest

  ·noun The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. ...

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• Bird's-nesting

  ·noun Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents. ...

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• Bird's-tongue

  ·noun The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). ...

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• Bird's Court

  West out of Philip Lane. In Cripplegarte Ward Within (Elmes, 1831), to Little Wood Street (Hatton,17...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bird's Wharf

  South out of Temple Street, west of White Fryers Stairs (Rocque, 1746-Dodsley, 1761). Site occupied...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Bird's Yard

  Out of Chick Lane, West Smithfield (P.C. I 732-Strype, ed. 1755-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the ma...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• jail birds

  Prisoners. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• queer birds

  Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bird's nest

  A round top at a mast-head for a look-out station. A smaller crow's nest. Chiefly used in whalers, w...

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• black-birds

  A slang term on the coast of Africa for a cargo of slaves. ...

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• ice-birds

  Small sea-fowl in the polar regions. ...

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• newgate birds

  The men sent on board ship from prisons; but the term has also been immemorially used, as applied to...

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• 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.

• Bird's-eye maple

  ·- ·see under <<Maple>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• bird's-nest fungus

  n. a small fungus of thegenus Cyathus, four species of which occur inQueensland. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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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• birds of a feather

  Rogues of the same gang. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bird's-foot sea-star

  The Palmipes membranaceus, one of the Asterinidæ, with a flat thin pentagonal body, of a bright scar...

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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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