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to eject. Because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth. Rev. ii. 16.

To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. "Thus spit I out my venom." Chaucer.

Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. [R.] Hooker.

One who ejects saliva from the mouth.

Uttered in speech; delivered by word of mouth; oral; as, a spoken narrative; the spoken word.

out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth.

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

door; to creak. Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch Addison. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the "squeaking pigs" of Homer. Pope.

To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

of the Southern United States. (b) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). (c) The redmouth, or grunt. (d) A market fish of Bermuda (Holocentrum Ascensione). -- Squirrel grass (Bot.), a pestiferous grass (Hordeum murinum) related to barley. In California the stiffly awned spiklets work into the wool of sheep, and…

utter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at all. Shak.

Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.

The mouth to the grate of a furnace; also, the space in front of the furnace, where the stokers stand.

A medicine for diseases of the mouth. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the mouth.

A division of Protozoa in which a mouthlike opening exists.

Having a mouth; -- applied to certain Protozoa. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

Scientific study or knowledge of the mouth.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.