1. Noun
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. Noun
An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
3. Noun
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. Noun
The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
5. Noun
The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
6. Noun
The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
7. Noun
The entrance into a harbor.
8. Noun
The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
9. Noun
A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
10. Noun
Cry; voice.
11. Noun
Speech; language; testimony.
12. Noun
A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
13. Verb
To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
14. Verb
To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
15. Verb
To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
16. Verb
To make mouths at.
17. Verb
To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
18. Verb
To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
19. Verb
To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
20. Noun
the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water; "New York is at the mouth of the Hudson"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
21. Noun
a person conceived as a consumer of food; "he has four mouths to feed"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
22. Noun
an impudent or insolent rejoinder; "don't give me any of your sass"
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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