Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mouthing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mouth \Mouth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mouthed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mouthing}.]
1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth
or teeth; to chew; to devour. --Dryden.
2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak
in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. ``Mouthing
big phrases.'' --Hare.
Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes. --Tennyson.
3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her
cub. --Sir T. Browne.
4. To make mouths at. [R.] --R. Blair.
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