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es jaculator), of the East Indies; -- so called from its ejecting drops of water from its mouth at its prey. The name is also applied to Chætodon rostratus.

The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." Holland.

Not possessing a mouth.

A round molding encircling a cannon near the mouth.

stitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

ide along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around…

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Walton.

rds. (b) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. (c) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. (d) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. (e) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.…

Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.

The appendages to the jaw in some Cetacea, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.

The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.