Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
Shak.
Down in the mouth, chapfallen; of dejected countenance; depressed;
discouraged. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Mouth friend, one who professes
friendship insincerely. Shak. -- Mouth glass, a small mirror for
inspecting the mouth or teeth. -- Mouth honor, honor given in words,
but not felt. Shak. -- Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See
Pandean. (b) An harmonicon. -- Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or
plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound. -- To stop the mouth,
to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound.
The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Ps. lxiii. 11.
Whose mouths must be stopped.
Titus i. 11.
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Mouth (mou), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mouthed (moud); 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.