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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mouth organ
    n 1: a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of
         free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into
         the desired hole [syn: harmonica, mouth organ, harp,
         mouth harp]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mouth \Mouth\ (mouth), n.; pl. Mouths (mou[th]z). [OE. mouth,
   mu[thorn], AS. m[=u][eth]; akin to D. mond, OS. m[=u][eth],
   G. mund, Icel. mu[eth]r, munnr, Sw. mun, Dan. mund, Goth.
   mun[thorn]s, and possibly L. mentum chin; or cf. D. muil
   mouth, muzzle, G. maul, OHG. m[=u]la, Icel. m[=u]li, 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.
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   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.
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   3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters
      the mouth of an animal.
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   4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a
      mouthpiece.
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            Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman
            belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street
            where he lives.                       --Addison.
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   5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   6. Speech; language; testimony.
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            That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every
            word may be established.              --Matt. xviii.
                                                  16.
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   7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
      [1913 Webster]

            Counterfeit sad looks,
            Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak.
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   Down at the mouth or 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.

   To put one's foot in one's mouth, to say something which
      causes one embarrassment.

   To run off at the mouth, to speak excessively.

   To talk out of both sides of one's mouth, to say things
      which are contradictory.
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            The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
                                                  --Ps. lxiii.
                                                  11.
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            Whose mouths must be stopped.         --Titus i. 11.
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