mouse skin

The skin of a mouse. Mouse-skin rag-leather: Bot.: Racodium cell are. mouse-tail, s. IMG:content-1452.png:[blocks in formation] "What's your dark meaning, mouse?"-Shakesp.: Love's of zeal and good nature, lay many kingdoms in bloou. Labor's Lost, v. 2. L'Estrange. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; B. Transitive : mouth IMG:content-1453.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Fortification : (1) The outer or widest part of an embrasure. The narrow part is the neck. (2) The part of a trench most remote from the besieged place. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-1454.png:[blocks in formation] (1) The opening in an organ pipe whence the wind emerges. Being directed against the lip or wind-cutter, it acquires a vibration which is imparted to the column of air in the pipe, producing a musical sound. The principle of the flageolet is similar. (2) In a flute, the edge of the opening against which the air from the mouth of the performer is cut, the vibration thereby imparted being communicated to the column of air in the tube. The pitch depends upon the length of the tube beyond the mouth, and the holes allow the length to be varied so as to produce varying notes. [PIPE.] 7. Physiol.: The mouth a ists in mastication, salivation, taste, and speech. The practice of eat ing too rapidly is the chief cause of dyspepsia and its consequent ailments, by the non-mechanical reduction of the food. 8. Saddlery : The cro -bar of a bridle-bit, uniting the branches or the rings. The mouth gives character to the bit as the straight mouthpiece, or arched, severe, jointed, wired, clothed, or with rollers. (1) Bullet in Mouth : An expre ion the origin of which is not clear. The following explanations have been given ( Illus . Lon . News ( Echoes ), June 7, 1884: (1) In the seventeenth century, when matchlocks were in use, the soldier carried the gun in one hand, the match lighted at both ends in the other, and the bullet in his mouth. (2) From the shot fitted in the mouths of field-pieces when a garrison that has capitulated marches out with the honors of war. In both these cases it would be in readine for service. (3) From the practice of swallowing musket-bullets to remove iliac or colic pains. In rural districts small shot are held to be a sovereign remedy for what is popularly known as "rising of the lights." Or it may be from the practice formerly common in both services for a man while being flogged to hold a bullet between his teeth. If this explanation be correct, the phrase is expre ive of determination. (2) To make a mouth , to make mouths: To make grimaces; to make a wry face; to deride, to mock. (MOUTH, 8. , I. 2 (2).] "Make mouths upon me when I turn my back." Shakesp.: Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2. mouth-footed, a. Having certain feet altered in to masticatory organs. Mouth- footed Crustacea : [STOMAPODA.]