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black-mouthed, a.|-ˈmaʊðd|
†a. Having a black mouth; fig. slanderous, calumnious.
1595Polimanteia (1881) 33 Blackemouthed enuie. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. (1821) 256 Blacke mouthed railing Rabshakeh. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2427/4 One black brindled Bull-Bitch..Black Mouth'd. 1697Snake in Gr. (ed. 2) 281 All the Black-Mouth'd and Hellish Venom.
b. Applied to a fish having a black mouth: black-mouthed dog-fish (Pristiurus melanostomus).
1862J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Isl. I. 18 The Black-mouthed or Eyed Dogfish is better known in the Mediterranean than with us. 1903G. Sim Vertebrate Fauna of ‘Dee’ 272 Pristiurus melanostomus. Black-mouthed Dog-fish... One was caught by trawl four miles off Aberdeen. |