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os



os
mouth


Definitions

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os
     1. n. The mouth.
     2. n. (in general) The face, countenance.
     3. n. The head.
     4. n. (poetic) Speech.
     5. n. A mouth, opening, entrance, aperture, orifice.
     6. n. The beak of a ship.
     7. n. The edge of a sword.
     8. n. (anatomy) A bone.
     9. n.          The hard or innermost part of trees or fruits; the heartwood.
     10. n. The bones, the framework or outline of a discourse.

Example Sentences

Dixitque Adam: Hæc nunc os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea! Hæc vocabitur Virago, quoniam de viro sumpta est hæc.
    And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.
In una domo comedetur, nec efferetis de carnibus eius foras nec os illius confringetis.
    In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.
Aperi os, quaeso!
    Open your mouth, please!
Os meum mundum est.
    My mouth is clean.



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