Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An appendage or organ that enters into the formation of the mouth of an insect, crustacean, myriapod, etc. See also cuts under house-fly, hyoid, and mosquito.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
mouthpart .
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Examples
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And from that place where I did stand, there spread out all before me the blue shining that I had seen from the mouth-part of the Upward Gorge; yet did it be a great way off.
The Night Land 2007
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Maid and I did stand as but two lonesome strangers in the mouth-part of that deep and desolate Gorge, and did stare voiceless unto the great flaw; and mine arm did be about the Maid, and she to stand very nigh to me; and neither to speak; and surely, how should we anywise; for the noise did be so huge.
The Night Land 2007
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And I set forward then at so good a pace as I might; and I was come into the mouth-part of the Upward Gorge in about an hour; and surely I did be very weary, for it was beyond six and thirty hours that we had gone since last we did sleep; and there had been sore labour and terror to our share in that time, as I have told.
The Night Land 2007
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Gorge; and we to halt soon between the feet of the mountains, beyond the mouth-part of the Gorge.
The Night Land 2007
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Own did be well, and whether that the boulder did balance in the mouth-part of the cave.
The Night Land 2007
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But yet might we block the mouth-part of the cave with boulders, somewise as I did before, and so to have a defence against any thing that should make to enter upon our sleep; or at the least to be waked by the falling of the boulders.
The Night Land 2007
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And after that I had sat a little while, I came full to wakefulness and afterward did eat two of the tablets and drink some of the water, the which I did, sitting in the mouth-part of the cave, after that
The Night Land 2007
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Not all parasites pass through a transformation inside the vector and remain in the salivary glands: filarial parasites are attached to the so-called proboscis (the mouth-part penetrating the skin) and are therefore transmitted mechanically.
Chapter 6 1996
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But yet might we block the mouth-part of the cave with boulders, somewise as I did before, and so to have a defence against any thing that should make to enter upon our sleep; or at the least to be waked by the falling of the boulders.
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But this to be learned after that I had lookt to see whether Mine Own did be well, and whether that the boulder did balance in the mouth-part of the cave.
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