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Mouth organ   /maʊθ ˈɔrgən/   Listen
noun
Mouth  n.  (pl. mouths)  
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."
5.
Cry; voice. (Obs.)
6.
Speech; language; testimony. "That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established."
7.
A wry face; a grimace; a mow. "Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back."
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.
Mouth glass, a small mirror for inspecting the mouth or teeth.
Mouth honor, honor given in words, but not felt.
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. "The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped." "Whose mouths must be stopped."





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"Mouth organ" Quotes from Famous Books



... rule the world", grumbled the waiter bitterly; then he played a wild variation of "Sweetie, You Are the Apple of My Eye" on a mouth organ. From time to time, he beat against the edge of a table. He rubbed his hand clean on his ...
— The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein • Alfred Lichtenstein
... starfields, we couldn't quite decide, and there were no captions to help; a thin book with ricepaper pages covered with Chinese characters—that was a puzzler; a thick book with nothing but columns of figures, all zeros and ones and nothing else; some tiny chisels; and a mouth organ. Pop, who'd make a point of just helping in the hunt, appropriated that last item—I might have known he would, I told myself. Now we could expect "Turkey in ...
— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber
... and Ted tried to get interested in a game of chess, but with little success. Bill Witt sought with mouth organ and banjo to buoy up the spirits of his downcast mates and succeeded poorly. Noon mess was served at eleven forty-five and even Jean Cartier, as he dispensed canned beans, brown bread, stewed fruit and tea, forgot to smile as ...
— The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet • James R. Driscoll
... time Bunny and Sue watched the elephants. There were two of them, and, after a while, a keeper came into the yard, and handed a large mouth organ to the biggest elephant. The wise creature held it in his trunk, and, to the surprise of Sue and her brother, began to blow on the mouth organ, making music, though of course the elephant could not ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home • Laura Lee Hope
... auspiciously with the chorus. The only trouble was the organist. Sam Henderson, a brother of Tremendous K., was the only young man in Orchard Glen who could play anything more complex than a mouth organ, and Sam always seemed to have too many fingers. And he pumped the air into the bellows so hard that the organ's gasps could be heard far above ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith


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