Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mouthed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mouthed \Mouthed\, a.
1. Furnished with a mouth.

2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth,
speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in
composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed;
mealy-mouthed.

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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