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Mouth
King James Dictionary
or MOUTH, n.
1. The aperture in the head of an animal, between the lips, by which he utters his voice and receives food. In a more general sense, the mouth consists of the lips, the gums, the insides of the cheeks, the palate, the salival glands, the uvula and tonsils.
2. The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied as the mouth of a jar or pitcher.
3. The part or channel of a river by which its waters are discharged into the ocean or into a lake. The Mississippi and the Nile discharge their waters by several mouths.
4. The opening of a piece of ordnance at the end, by which the charge issues.
5. The aperture of a vessel in animal bodies, by which fluids or other matter is received or discharged as the mouth of the lacteals.
6. The opening or entrance of a cave, pit, well or den. Daniel 8
7. The instrument of speaking as, the story is in every body's mouth.
8. A principal speaker one that utters the common opinion.
Every coffee house has some statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
9. Cry voice.
The fearful dogs divide,
All spend their mouth aloft, but none abide.
10. In Scripture, words uttered. Job 19; Isaiah 49; Psalms 73
11. Desires necessities. Psalms 103
12. Freedom and boldness of speech force of argument.
Luke 21 .
13. Boasting vaunting. Judges 9 .
14. Testimony. Deuteronomy 17
15. Reproaches calumnies. Job 5
To make a mouth, to distort the mouth
To make mouths, to make a wry face hence, to deride or treat with scorn.
1. To pout to treat disdainfully.
Down in the mouth, dejected mortified.
To have God's law in the mouth, to converse much on it and delight in it. Exodus 13
To draw near to God with the mouth, to make an external appearance of devotion and worship, while there is no regard to him in the heart. Isaiah 29
A froward mouth, contradictions and disobedience. Proverbs 9
A smooth mouth, soft and flattering language. Proverbs 5
To stop the mouth, to silence or to be silent to put to shame to confound. Romans 3 lay the hand on the mouth, to be struck silent with shame. Micah 7
To set the mouth against the heavens, to speak arrogantly and blasphemously. Psalms 73
MOUTH, To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling as, to mouth words or language.
Twitch'd by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more.
1. To take into the mouth to seize with the mouth.
2. To chew to grind, as food to eat to devour.
3. To form by the mouth, as a bear her cub. Not used.
4. To reproach to insult.
MOUTH, To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice to vociferate to rant as a mouthing actor.
I'll bellow out for Rome and for my country,
And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Mouth'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/m/mouth.html.
