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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.

3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to
lick, as a bear her cub. Sir T. Browne.

4. To make mouths at. [R.] R.
Blair.

Mouth, v. i. 1. To
speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to
rant.

I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country,

And mouth at Cæsar, till I shake the
senate.

2. To put mouth to mouth; to kiss. [R.]
Shak.

3. To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or
contempt.

Well I know, when I am gone,

How she mouths behind my back.

Mouthed (?), a. 1.
Furnished with a mouth.

2.


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