Found 4 hits - Term: down in the mouth, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mouth \mouth\ mouth, n.; pl. mouths mouthz. oe. mouth,
muthorn, as. m=ueth; akin to d. mond, os. m=ueth,
g. mund, icel. muethr, munnr, sw. mun, dan. mund, goth.
munthorns, and possibly l. mentum chin; or cf. d. muil
mouth, muzzle, g. maul, ohg. m=ula, icel. m=uli, 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.
1913 webster
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.
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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.
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counterfeit sad looks,
make mouths upon me when i turn my back. --shak.
1913 webster
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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see also:
mouths down at the mouth down in the mouth mouth friend mouth glass mouth honor
mouth organ pandean mouth pipe to stop the mouth to put one's foot in one's mouth
to run off at the mouth to talk out of both sides of one's mouth
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
down \down\, a.
1. downcast; as, a down look. r.
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2. downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. obs.
--beau. fl.
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3. downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down
grade; a down train on a railway.
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down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney,
shaft of a mine, etc.
down in the mouth, down at the mouth chopfallen;
dejected.
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see also:
down draught down in the mouth down at the mouth
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
down in the mouth
adj : low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city";
"depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and
resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his
defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" syn: blue,
depressed, dispirited, downp, downcast, downhearted,
low, low-spirited
see also:
blue depressed dispirited downp downcast downhearted
low low-spirited
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 moby thesaurus words for "down in the mouth":
bowed-down, cast down, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing,
despondent, desponding, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited,
down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, feeling low,
heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits,
in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, languishing, low,
low-spirited, pessimistic, pining, spiritless, subdued, suicidal,
weary of life, woebegone, world-weary
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