Bore
(imp.) of Bear |
Bird's-mouth
(n.) An interior angle or notch cut across a piece of timber, for the reception of the edge of another, as that in a rafter to be laid on a plate |
Bore
(v. t.) To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument |
Bore
(v. t.) To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus |
Bore
(v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring |
Bore
(v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness |
Bore
(v. t.) To befool |
Bore
(v. i.) To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument |
Bore
(v. i.) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns |
Bore
(v. i.) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort. |
Bore
(v. i.) To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air |
Bore
(n.) A hole made by boring |
Bore
(n.) The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube. |
Bore
(n.) The size of a hole |
Bore
(n.) A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger. |
Bore
(n.) Caliber |
Bore
(n.) A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness |
Bore
(n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China. |
Bore
(n.) Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel. |
Bore
() imp. of 1st & 2d Bear. |
Mouth
(n.) The opening through which an animal receives food |
Mouth
(n.) An opening affording entrance or exit |
Mouth
(n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged |
Mouth
(n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den. |
Mouth
(n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged. |
Mouth
(n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged. |
Mouth
(n.) The entrance into a harbor. |
Mouth
(n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal. |
Mouth
(n.) A principal speaker |
Mouth
(n.) Cry |
Mouth
(n.) Speech |
Mouth
(n.) A wry face |
Mouth
(v. t.) To take into the mouth |
Mouth
(v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling |
Mouth
(v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth |
Mouth
(v. t.) To make mouths at. |
Mouth
(v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice |
Mouth
(v. i.) To put mouth to mouth |
Mouth
(v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt. |
Mouth-footed
(a.) Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws. |
Mouth-made
(a.) Spoken without sincerity |
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CPR
cardiac resuscitation
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
kiss of life | an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration, the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing, attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen |
bore
bore-hole
drill hole | a hole or passage made by a drill, usually made for exploratory purposes |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
harmonica
mouth organ
harp mouth harp | a small rectangular freeeed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole |
jew's harp
jews' harp
mouth bow | a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity |
| mouth | the opening of a jar or bottle, the jar had a wide mouth |
| mouth hole | a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth |
bore
gauge caliber calibre | diameter of a tube or gun barrel |
| mouth | the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening, she wiped lipstick from her mouth |
mouth oral cavity
oral fissure
rima oris | the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge, he stuffed his mouth with candy |
palate
roof of the mouth | the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities |
sass
sassing
backtalk
back talk
lip
mouth | an impudent or insolent rejoinder, don't give me any of your sass |
grapevine
pipeline
word of mouth | gossip spread by spoken communication, the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth |
tidal bore
bore
eagre
aegir
eager | a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) |
| mouth | the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water, New York is at the mouth of the Hudson |
| mouth | an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge), he rode into the mouth of the canyon, they built a fire at the mouth of the cave |
bore
dullard | a person who evokes boredom |
| mouth | a person conceived as a consumer of food, he has four mouths to feed |
| mouthpiece mouth | a spokesperson (as a lawyer) |
bog rose
wild pink dragon's mouth
Arethusa bulbosa | a bog orchid with usually a solitary fragrant magenta pink blossom with a wide gaping corolla, Canada |
green adder's mouth
Malaxis-unifolia
Malaxis ophioglossoides | North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals |
Vincent's angina
Vincent's infection
trench mouth | an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane |
foot-and-mouth disease
hoof-and-mouth disease | acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs |
xerostomia
dry mouth | abnormal dryness of the mouth resulting from decreased secretion of saliva |
lip off
shoot one's mouth off | speak spontaneously and without restraint, She always shoots her mouth off and says things she later regrets |
keep quiet
shut one's mouth
keep one's mouth shut | refrain from divulging sensitive information, keep quiet about confidential information, Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut! |
talk
speak
utter
mouth
verbalize
verbalise | express in speech, She talks a lot of nonsense, This depressed patient does not verbalize |
| mouth | articulate silently, form words with the lips only, She mouthed a swear word |
rant
mouth off
jabber
spout
rabbit on
rave | talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| mouth | touch with the mouth |
bore
drill | make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool, don't drill here, there's a gas pipe, drill a hole into the wall, drill for oil, carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall |
foam at the mouth
froth at the mouth | be in a state of uncontrolled anger |
bore
tire | cause to be bored |
| hand-to-mouth(a) | providing only bare essentials, a hand-to-mouth existence |
mouth-watering
savory
savoury | pleasing to the sense of taste |
b gloomy
grim
blue
depressed
dispirited
down(p)
downcast
downhearted
down in the mouth
low
low-spirited ab | filled with melancholy and despondency , gloomy at the thought of what he had to face, gloomy predictions, a gloomy silence, took a grim view of the economy, the darkening mood, lonely and blue in a strange city, depressed by the loss of his job, a dispirited and resigned expression on her face, downcast after his defeat, feeling discouraged and downhearted |
viva-voce
word-of-mouth | expressed orally, a viva-voce report, the film had good word-of-mouth publicity |
| hand to mouth | with barely enough money for immediate needs, they lived form hand to mouth |
orally
by word of mouth | by spoken rather than written means, these stories were transmitted by word of mouth |
| by word of mouth viva voce | orally, I heard it viva voce |