Word Meanings - CHOPS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth. 2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.

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• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• CHOPSTICK
  One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by the Chinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• MOUTHFUL
  1. As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time. 2. Hence, a small quantity.
• HARBOROUS
  Hospitable.
• CHANNEL
  A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel. 4. That through which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• MOUTHED
  1. Furnished with a mouth. 2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide- mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed.
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• MOUTH
  An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture; as: The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc. The opening or entrance of any
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• HARBORLESS
  Without a harbor; shelterless.
• CHOPS
  1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth. 2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.
• RIVERHOOD
  The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.
• HARBORER
  One who, or that which, harbors. Geneva was . . . a harborer of exiles for religion. Strype.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• LOUD-MOUTHED
  Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• REDMOUTH
  Any one of several species of marine food fishes of the genus Diabasis, or Hæmulon, of the Southern United States, having the inside of the mouth bright red. Called also flannelmouth, and grunt.
• SPLAYMOUTH
  A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.
• FLAP-MOUTHED
  Having broad, hangling lips. Shak.
• HOT-MOUTHED
  Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.
• FOUL-MOUTHED
  Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. So foul-mouthed a witness never appeared in any cause. Addison.
• FROGMOUTH
  One of several species of Asiatic and East Indian birds of the genus Batrachostomus ; -- so called from their very broad, flat bills.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.