Found 2 hits - Term: to stop 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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
stop \stop\, v. t. imp. p. p. stopped; p. pr. vb. n.
stopping. oe. stoppen, as. stoppian in comp.; akin to
lg. d. stoppen, g. stopfen, icel. stoppa, sw. stoppa, dan.
stoppe; all probably fr. ll. stopare, stupare, fr. l. stuppa
the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. cf. estop, stuff,
stupe a fomentation.
1. to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;
as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
--shak.
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2. to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way,
road, or passage.
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3. to arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut
in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a
stream, or a flow of blood.
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4. to hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or
efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain;
to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the
execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the
approaches of old age or infirmity.
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whose disposition all the world well knows
will not be rubbed nor stopped. --shak.
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5. mus. to regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by
pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or
by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
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6. to point, as a composition; to punctuate. r.
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if his sentences were properly stopped. --landor.
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7. naut. to make fast; to stopper.
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syn: to obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress;
restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
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to stop off founding, to fill a part of a mold with
sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is
not wanted for the casting.
to stop the mouth. see under mouth.
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see also:
stopped stopping estop stuff stupe to stop off
to stop the mouth mouth
Results 1 - 6 of 6 found about to stop the mouth: Glottal Stop
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Bus Stop, definition of term: Bus Stop
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Foot And Mouth, definition of term: Foot And Mouth
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