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    mouth organ
    [ noun ]
    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
    <noun.artifact>


    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.

    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.

    3. (Saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters
    the mouth of an animal.

    4. A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a
    mouthpiece.

    Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman
    belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street
    where he lives. --Addison.

    5. Cry; voice. [Obs.] --Dryden.

    6. Speech; language; testimony.

    That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every
    word may be established. --Matt. xviii.
    16.

    7. A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

    Counterfeit sad looks,
    Make mouths upon me when I turn my back. --Shak.

    {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.
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
    --Ps. lxiii.
    11.

    Whose mouths must be stopped. --Titus i. 11.

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