mouth 
The U< 1111:111 orator was ii< '/, in '/ mouth, finding him- 
self thus i -heated by the money-changer. 
Hi'. Halt, Works, VII. 309. 
From hand to mouth, sec hand. Full, Imperfect, 
masticatory, i u., mouth. 8e the adjective* Man- 
dibulate mouth. samr :is mnxtii-dt^ri/ umutli. Mark 
of mouth. See wwirti.- Mouth-glue. See glue. Mouth 
Of a plane, the spiice lK-t\vi-t.-n the cutting edge of a plane- 
iron and the part of the pl:uie-sto<:k immediately in front 
<>f the iron, through which the shavingM pass in hand- 
pl:uiinir. Mouth Of a shovel, the part of a shovel which 
In use rtrst begins to receive the charge or load ; the front 
r<l'_'( -"i :i h"M I. This part Is frequently made of steel, 
such sliovcla lK-iriu;r:i]li-iU'/r<7 mouthed. TO be born with 
a silver spoon In one's mouth. See 6wnii. To carry 
a bone In the mouth, sec 6mwi. To crook the mouth. 
See crunk. To give mouth to, to utter; express. To 
have one's heart In one's mouth. See heart To 
laugh out of the other side of one's mouth. Scelauyh. 
-To look a gift-horse In the mouth. See yift-hnrnr. 
To make a mouth, or to make mouths, to distort 
the mouth in mockery ; make a wry face ; pout. 
Ay do, persever, counterfeit sad looks, 
Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. 
Shak., M. N. D., ill. 2. 238. 
To make or have one's mouth water. See water. To 
make up one's mouth for. See make^.1o put one's 
head Into the lion's mouth. See lion. To stop one's 
mouth, to put one to silence. 
mouth (moiiTii), r. [< ME. moutheii ; < mouth, 
.] I. trans. If. To utter. 
Thanne Mercy fnl myldly mouthed thise wordes : 
"Throw experience," quod she, "I hope they shal be 
saued. " Pien Plowman (B), xvlli. 150. 
2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swell- 
ing, or with more regard to sound than to sense. 
Speak the speech . . . trippingly on the tongue ; but 
if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief 
the town-crier spoke my lines. Shak., Hainlet, ill. 2. 3. 
I hate to hear an actor mouthinij trifles. 
Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xxl. 
3. To touch, press, or seize with the mouth or 
lips; take into the mouth; mumble; lick. 
The beholder at first sight conceives it a rode and in- 
formous lump of flesh, and imputes the ensuing shape 
unto the mouthing of the dam. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ill. 6. 
lie mouthed them, and betwixt his grinders caught 
Drydm, tr. of Persius's Satires, 1. 281. 
Psyche . . . hugged and never hngg'd It (her infant] close 
enough, 
And in her hunger mouth'd and mumbled it. 
Tennyson, Princess, vl. 
4. To reproach; insult. 
Then might the debauchee 
Untrembling mouth the heavens. 
Blair, The Grave. 
II. in trans. 1. To speak with a full, round, 
or loud voice; speak affectedly; vociferate; 
rant: as, a iiunilhiiuj actor. 
Nay, an thoult mouth, 
I'll rant as well as thou. 
Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 306. 
I'll bellow out for Rome and for my country, 
And mouth at Ceesar till I shake the senate. 
Addison, Cato, i . 8. 
2. To join mouths; kiss. [Rare.] 
He would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown 
bread and garlick. Shak., M . for M., 111. 2. 194. 
3. To make a mouth ; make a wry face ; gri- 
mace. 
Well I know when I am gone 
How she mouths behind my back. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin, IT. 
mputhable (mou'THa-bl), n. [< mouth + -able.] 
That can be readily or fluently uttered ; sound- 
ing well. 
And other good mouthaMf lines. 
0. W. Holmes, The Atlantic, LIX. 640. 
mouth-arm (mouth'iinu), . One of the oral 
arms or processes from the mouth of a jelly-fish 
or other hydrozoan. Science, V. 258. 
mouth-blower (mouth'blo'er), . A common 
blowpipe. 
mouth-case (mouth'kas), H. In entom., that 
part of the integument of a pupa that covers 
the mouth. 
mouthed (moutht), p. a. Furnished with a 
mouth: mainly used in composition, to note 
some characteristic of mouth or of speech, as in 
titird-iiioutheil, foul-mnuthnl. iiiili/-iii<ititlied. 
A i:mgler, and eiiill mouthed one. 
Oower, Conf. Amant., v. 
And set me down, and took a mouthed shell 
And murnmr'd into it, and made melody. 
Keats, Hyperion, ii. 
mouther (mou'THer), n. One who mouths; an 
affected dtvliiimer. 
mouth-filling (mouth'fil'ing), a. Filling the 
mouth. 
Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, 
A good moiit/i-rilliiuj oath. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iii. i. 259. 
mouth-foot (mouth'fut). H. A mouth-part which 
consists of a modified foot or limb ; a foot-jaw or 
pcd: generally in the plural. 
3881 
mouth-footed (mouth' fut'ed), a. Having 
mouth-feet ; having foot-jaws or maxillipeds ; 
specifically, stomatopodoug. 
mouth-friend (mouth'frend), w. One who pro- 
fesses friendship without entertaining it ; a pre- 
tended or false friend. 
May you a better feast never behold, 
You knot of mouth-friendt ! 
Shak.,T. of A., iii. 6.99. 
mouthful (mouth'ful), n. [< mouth + -fid.] 1. 
As much as the mouth will contain or as is put 
into the mouth at one time. 
A 1 [a whale) plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry be- 
fore him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. 
Shak., Pericles, II. 1. 35. 
2. A small quantity. 
You to your own Aquluum shall repair, 
To take a mouthful of sweet country air. 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, 111. 499. 
mouth-gage (mouth 'gaj), n. An instrument 
consisting mainly of graduated bars and slides, 
used by saddlers for measuring the width and 
height of a horse's mouth, as a guide in fitting 
a bit. 
mouth-glass (mouth'glas), M. A small hand- 
mirror used in dentistry for inspecting the 
teeth and gums, etc. 
mouth-honor (mouth'on'or),/?. Respectordef- 
erence expressed without sincerity. 
Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath. 
Shot., Macbeth, v. 8. 27. 
mouthing (mou'THing), H. [Verbal n. of mouth, 
v.] Rant. 
These threats were the merest mouthing, andJudasknew 
It very well. The Century, XXXVIII. 896. 
mouthing (mou'THing), p. a. Ranting. 
Akenside is respectable, because he really had something 
new to say, in spite of his pompous, mouthing way of say- 
Ing it. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 180. 
mouthing-machine (mou'thing-ma-shen*), n. 
In sheet-metal working, a swaging-machine for 
striking up the mouths or tops of open-top tin 
cans, to receive the covers, and also for crimp- 
ing the bottoms of the cans, 
mouthless (mouth'les), a. [< ME. "mouthks, < 
AS. muthleds, < muth, mouth, + -leds, E. -7e.- 
see mouth and -less.] Having no mouth ; asto- 
matous. 
mouth-made (mouth'mad), a. Expressed with- 
out sincerity ; hypocritical. 
Riotous madness, 
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows, 
Which break themselves in swearing ! 
Shak., A. and f., i. 3. 30. 
mouth-organ ( mouth 'dr'gan), H. 1. Pan's- 
pipes, or a harmonica. 
A set of Pan pipes, better known to the many as a moutfi- 
organ. Dickens, Sketches. (Darits.) 
2. In sool., one of the parts or appendages of 
the month. 
The degraded mouth-organs of the Sugentia. 
A. S. Packard. 
mouth-part (mouth'part), n. 
organ that en- 
ters into the 
formation of 
the mouth of 
an insect, crus- 
tacean, myria- 
pod, etc. See 
also cuts under 
Intiixe-fly, hy- 
oid, and 
movable 
mouth-ling (moutli'i-in;;). w. Tbe oral or eso- 
|>liHK<'Hl nci'viiits riiiic "t an rdiiiindcrm. 
mouthroot (motith'riit), n. The goldthread, 
Cn/itix trij'iiliu. The root is a tonic bitter, and 
is used in some places for the cure of MU--- 
mouth. 
mouthy (mou'thy), a. [< mouth + -y 1 .] Lo- 
quacious; ranting; affected. 
Another Bald to a mouthy advocate, Why darkest thuu 
at me so sore? Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 148. 
A turgid style of mouthy grandiloquence. 
be Quincey, Rhetoric. 
mouton (mci-ton'), w. [OF., a coin so called 
from the paschal lamb on the obverse, lit. 
sheep': see mutton.'] A gold coin current in 
France in the fourteenth century, having tvpes 
similar to those of the agnel, and weighing about 
An appendage or 
mouthpiece 
(mouth ' pes), 
Ii. 1. In an Mouth-parts of a Beetle (HarfalHS taligi- 
inotviimont or MIM), viewed from the under side. 
M. if, the mandibles; G, gena. or cheek ; 
tlteilSli made i, glossa. and 3, 3, the paragloss.Te, together 
ibial 
*Un m/Cutl* flm Ubrura visible; 8, mentum ; 9. submentum : 
the mOUth, the jo.guU; n,antenna<9,8,3. 2 and I together 
part which compose the labium or under lip and its ap- 
tpuches the p 
lips or is held in the mouth, as in a musical 
instrument, a tobacco-pipe, cigar-holder, etc. 
See cut under clarinet. 2. One who delivers 
the opinions of others ; one who speaks on be- 
half of others: as, the mouthpiece of an as- 
sembly. 
I come the mouthpiece of our King to Doonn. 
Tennyson. Gcraint. 
mouth-pipe (mouth'pip), n. 1. That part of 
a musical wind-instrument to which the mouth 
is applied. 2. An organ-pipe having a lip to 
out the wind escaping through an aperture in 
a diaphragm. E. H. Knight. 
Obverse. Reverse. 
French Mouton of Henry V. of England. 
70 grains; also, a gold coin with similar types 
(sometimes called agnel) struck by Edward III. 
and Henry V. of England for their French do- 
minions. The mouton of Edward weighed about 
70 grains, that of Henry about 40 grains. 
mouzah (mo"zS), . [E. Ind.] In India, a vil- 
lage with its surrounding or adjacent township. 
mouzlet, v. Aii obsolete form of muzzle. 
movability (m8-va-bil 'i-ti) , n . [Also morea bil- 
ity ; < movable + -ity: see-bility.] The quality 
or property of being movable ; movableness. 
movable (ino'va-bl), a. and n. [Also moveable; 
< ME. movabylle, moevable, mevable, < OF. mo- 
vable, mouvable = Pr. movable = 8p. movible = 
Pg. movivcl = It. moi'ibile, < L. as if "movibilis, 
contr. mobilis (>ult. E. mobk 1 , mobile 1 , q. v.), < 
motere, move: see move.] I. a. 1. Capable of 
being moved from place to place; admitting of 
being lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or con- 
veyed, or in any way made to change place or 
posture; susceptible of motion; hence, as ap- 
plied to property, personal. 
To the thridde his goodes meuable. 
Hob. of Gloucester, p. 586. 
A stick and a wallet were all the moveablr things upon 
this earth that he could boast of. GoUmiith, Vicar, ilx. 
2. Capable of being transposed or otherwise 
changed in parts or details: as, in printing, a 
form of movable type. 3. Changing from one 
date to another in different years : as, a movable 
feast. 
The lunar month is natural and periodical, by which the 
moveable festivals of the Christian Church are regulated. 
Holder. 
4t. Fickle; inconstant. 
Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways 
are moveable, that thou canst uot know them. Prov. v. 6. 
Movable bars, the cross-bars of a printers' chase which 
are detachable. Movable dam. Same as barrage. 
Movable do. See do* and solmization, Movable feast. 
See /ecufl, 1. Movable kidney. Same as floating kid- 
ney (which see, under kidney). Movable ladder. See 
ladder. Movable property, personal property. 
II. n. 1. Anything that can be moved, or 
that can readily be moved. 
The flrste moevable of the elghte spere. 
Chaucer, Astrolabe, L 17. 
2. Specifically (generally in the plural), per- 
sonal property; any species of property not 
fixed, and thus distinguished from houses and 
lands. Movable things are those which could be removed 
or displaced without affecting their substance, whether 
the displacement might be effected by their own proper 
force or by the effect of a force external to them. Goud- 
tinit. In Scots law, movables are opposed to heritage ; so 
that every species of property, and every right person 
can hold, is by that law either heritable or movable. 
If you want a greasy paire of silke stockings also, to 
shew yourself e in at Court, they are to be had too amongst 
his moveaNft. ffath. Four Letters Confuted. 
Books of travel have familiarized every reader with the 
custom of burying a dead man's movables with him. 
a. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 1 103. 
3. An article of furniture, as a chair, table, or 
the like, resting on the floor of a room. 
An ample court, and a palace furnish 'd with the most 
rich and princely mortaMes. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 11, 1644. 
It's much if he looks at me ; or if he does, takes no more 
Notice of me than of any other Moreable in the Boom. 
Steele, Conscious Lovers, iii. 1. 
Helrship movables, see heinhip. 
