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单词 to spend the mouth
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to spend the mouth
b. to spend the mouth, to spend the tongue, etc. Of hunting dogs: To bark or give tongue on finding or seeing the game. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound
openc1425
cry1486
yearn1523
chant1573
babble1575
to lead chawle1589
to spend the mouth1590
spend1602
to give tongue1737
to throw (its) tongue1742
speak1826
tongue1832
to give mouth1854
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting D ij b He will vent so oft, and put vp ouer water, at which time the houndes will spend their mouthes verie lustely.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iv. 70.
a1627 H. Shirley Martyr'd Souldier (1638) iii. sig. D4 A packe of the bravest Spartan Dogges in the world; if they do but once open, and spend there Gabble, gabble, gabble it will make the Forrest ecchoe.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 3 The onely difference I finde is, these doe not spend their mouthes, but what they want in that is supplyed by the goodnesse of their noses.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 228 Nor was it Reason that the gutted Fops Should spend their Tongues, who could not use their Chops.
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