Mouth, vb. 1) to join lips, to bill and coo: “he would m. with a beggar,” Meas. III, 2, 194.
2) to take into the mouth: “first --ed to be last swallowed,” Hml. IV, 2, 20.
3) to speak big: “an thou'lt m., I'll rant as well as thou,” Hml. V, 1, 306. trans., == to recite with a big and affected voice: “if you m. it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines,” Hml. III, 2, 3.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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