MOUTH

Definitions

1. 1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour. Dryden.
2. 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. 3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub. Sir T. Browne.
4. 4. To make mouths at. [R.] R. Blair.