bell-mouthed
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]bell-mouthed (not comparable)
- Expanding at the mouth.
- a bell-mouthed gun
- 1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):
- His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite Danish
Or Dutch with thirst
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bell-mouthed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)