Mouth

Mouth

In animal anatomy, the mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food.

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Famous quotes containing the word mouth:

    “If you keep your mouth shut, even the gods can do nothing to you.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit
    Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit
    There is not even silence in the mountains
    But dry sterile thunder without rain”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 15:9.