Mousing hook, a hook with an attachment which prevents its unhooking.
Mou"sle (?), v. t. To sport with roughly; to rumple. [Written also
mouzle.] [Obs.] Wycherley.
||Mousse`line" (?), n. [F.] Muslin.
||Mousseline de laine (&?;). [F., muslin of wool.] Muslin delaine. See
||under Muslin. -- Mousseline glass, a kind of thin blown glassware,
||such as wineglasses, etc.
Mous`tache" (?), n. [F.] Mustache.
Mous"y (mouz"), a. Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
Mou"tan (?), n. (Bot.) The Chinese tree peony (Pæonia Mountan), a shrub
with large flowers of various colors.
Mouth (mouth), n.; pl. Mouths (mouz). [OE. mouth, muþ, AS. mð; akin to
D. mond, OS. mð, G. mund, Icel. muðr, munnr, Sw. mun, Dan. mund, Goth.
munþs, and possibly L. mentum chin; or cf. D. muil mouth, muzzle, G.
maul, OHG. mla, Icel. mli, and Skr. mukha mouth.] 1. 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. Hence: An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as:
(a) 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. (b) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a
cave, pit, well, or den. (c) The opening of a piece of ordnance,
through which it is discharged. (d) The opening through which the
waters of a river or any stream are discharged. (e) The entrance into a
harbor.
3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of
an animal.
4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a
mouthpiece.
Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it,
who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
Addison.