Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOUTH, v.t.

1. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; as, to mouth words or language. Twitch'd by the sleeve, he mouths it more and more. Dryden.
2. To take into the mouth; to seize with the mouth. Dryden.
3. To chew; to grind, as food; to eat; to devour. Shak.
4. To form by the mouth, as a bear her cub. [Not used.] Brown.
5. To reproach; to insult. Blair.