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▪ I. mouthing, n. Mining.|ˈmaʊθɪŋ|
[f. mouth n. + -ing1.]
The entrance to a mine.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining. 1902Daily Chron. 4 Apr. 6/4 It is only a new mine, and there was only three yards in the mouthing.
▪ II. mouthing, vbl. n.|ˈmaʊðɪŋ|
[f. mouth v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb mouth.
1598Florio, Sbarléffo..a mouthinge, or looking staringlie. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. vi. 117 The beholder at first sight, conceives it [sc. the cub] a rude and informous lumpe of flesh, and imputes the ensuing shape unto the mouthing of the Dam. 1728Pope Dunc. ii. 237 The monkey-mimics rush discordant in; Twas chatt'ring, grinning, mouthing, jabbring all. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. i. 14 Thomson..too often falls into mere pompous mouthing. 1884Yates Recoll. v. 205 A fine old-crusted actor, full of mouthings and conventionalisms. a1948L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) 391 s.v. Race. Narrow passage in a sheepyard, for drafting, mouthing, branding, etc. 1950N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 122 (caption) The photograph shows part of the preparation of a breeding flock for the season, which entails mouthing, drafting for wool, age, and other factors.
b. Comb.: mouthing bit, a bit used in ‘mouthing’ a horse; mouthing machine (see quot. 1884).
1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. 1. viii. §5. 346/1 The Mouthing-Bit may now be put on. 1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., Mouthing Machine (Sheet-metal Working), a machine for crimping bottoms and swaging or mouthing the tops of open-top cans, to receive the covers.
▪ III. mouthing, ppl. a.|ˈmaʊðɪŋ|
[f. mouth v. + -ing2.]
That mouths, in the senses of the verb.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 898 A mouthing fellow, Clamosus. 1693Dryden Persius v. (1697) 471 When Progne's or Thyestes' Feast they write; And, for the mouthing Actor, Verse indite. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xxi. iv. (1872) X. 23 A solemn, arrogant, mouthing..kind of man. 1904E. Rickert Reaper 62 One might see in her withered mouthing face the wreckage of a great beauty.
b. Of speech, etc.: Characterized by grandiloquence or pomposity.
1814L. Hunt Feast of Poets, etc. (1815) 50 A translation..which..is at least..much above the mouthing nonentities which have been palmed upon us of late years for that wonderful poet. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. v. 128 That fine mouthing speech of his, magniloquent and generous.
Hence ˈmouthingly adv., in a mouthing manner.
1903Blackw. Mag. Aug. 277/2 What the philosophical Radicals..mouthingly extolled as ‘individual initiative’. |