Word Meanings - BELL-MOUTHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron.
Related words: (words related to BELL-MOUTHED)
- MOUTHFUL
1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity. - EXPANDER
Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. - MOUTHED
1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed. - MOUTH
An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: 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. The opening or entrance of any - BYRONIC
Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray - MOUTHPIECE
1. The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe. 2. An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or - MOUTH-FOOTED
Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. - EXPAND
To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5. (more info) 1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight. - MOUTH-MADE
Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak. - MOUTHER
One who mouths; an affected speaker. - EXPANDING
That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill , a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley , a pulley so - MOUTHLESS
Destitute of a mouth. - LOUD-MOUTHED
Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent. - REDMOUTH
Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt. - SPLAYMOUTH
A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden. - FLAP-MOUTHED
Having broad, hangling lips. Shak. - HOT-MOUTHED
Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden. - FOUL-MOUTHED
Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison. - FROGMOUTH
One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills. - FLUTEMOUTH
A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout. - OPEN-MOUTHED
Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange. - SALTMOUTH
A wide-mouthed bottle with glass stopper for holding chemicals, especially crystallized salts. - BLACK-MOUTHED
Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous. - PIPEMOUTH
Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia. - POUCH-MOUTHED
Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped. - BELL-MOUTHED
Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun. Byron. - HARD-MOUTHED
Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard- mouthed horse.