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Mouthpiece   /mˈaʊθpˌis/   Listen
Mouthpiece

noun
1.
A part that goes over or into the mouth of a person.
2.
An acoustic device; the part of a telephone into which a person speaks.
3.
A spokesperson (as a lawyer).  Synonym: mouth.
4.
(especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth.  Synonym: gumshield.
5.
The tube of a pipe or cigarette holder that a smoker holds in the mouth.
6.
The aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.  Synonym: embouchure.





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"Mouthpiece" Quotes from Famous Books



... been sitting back planning the future of men and women as they planned the cards of their sniggering skat games, would awake to a sun dripping blood." He paused for a moment. "And as for that psychiatric cripple, their mouthpiece," he concluded sombrely, "that maimed man who broods over battle-fields, he would find a creeping horror in his brain like ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... orders to co-operate. I have expressed my opinion on using undergraduates in a job like this and have been overruled. If he, or you, imagine that priming you to bring out his ideas like this is going to reconcile me to the whole business you are mistaken. He might have chosen a more suitable mouthpiece than that child with the ...
— The Lost Kafoozalum • Pauline Ashwell
... goes to a production of Mr. SHAW'S with the idea of seeing a play. We go to hear him discourse on just anything that occurs to him without prejudice in the matter of his mouthpiece. This time he was represented by a dustman; and for once Mr. SHAW consented to temper his wisdom to the limitations of its repository. His Alfred Doolittle (father of the flower-girl) threw off a little cheap satire on the morality of the middle-classes, yet admitted ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 • Various
... got when the doctor's arm was round her and his hand was pressed against her mouth. One of the men was carrying what looked like a rubber bottle with a conical-shaped mouthpiece. She struggled, but the doctor held her in a grip of steel. She was thrown to the ground, the rubber cap of the bottle was pressed over her face, there came a rush of cold air heavily charged with a sickly scent, and she felt ...
— The Green Rust • Edgar Wallace
... is the same as that employed by dentists and contains both nitrous oxid and oxygen cylinders. A small nasal inhaler is best, although the ordinary mouthpiece will do very well. The gasbag attached to the tank should be kept under low pressure and, as a pain begins, the patient is told to breathe quietly, keeping the mouth closed. As a rule this sort of light inhalation ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler


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