Definition of Mouth

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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.

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Mouth Quotations

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 the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

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

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway

When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.
Mike Ditka

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
Plato

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
Voltaire

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

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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