Mouths

1. (n) (anatomy) The front opening of a creature through which food is ingested. 2. (n) The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water; or the end of a tributary out of which water flows into a larger river. 3. (n) An outlet, aperture or orifice. 4. (n) (slang) A loud or overly talkative person. 5. (n) (slang) A gossip. 6. (n) (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. 7. (v) (transitive) To speak; to utter. 8. (v) (transitive) To represent (words or sounds) by making the actions of speech, but silently, without producing sound; to frame. 9. (v) (transitive, intransitive) To move the mouth, with or without sound; to form (air or words) with the mouth, with or without sound. 10. (v) (ambitransitive) To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling. 11. (v) To exit at a mouth (such as a river mouth) 12. (v) (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow. 13. (v) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. 14. (v) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub. 15. (v) To carry in the mouth. 16. (v) To form a mouth or opening in. 17. (v) (sheep husbandry) To examine the teeth of. 18. (n) (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. 19. (n) (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony. 20. (n) (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow. 21. (v) (obsolete) To make mouths at 22. (v) (figurative) Ellipsis of mouth the words; to speak insincerely. [(literally) To mouth words in the sense "to make the actions of speech, without producing sound."]