Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In conchology, white-lipped.

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Examples

  • Jim Snow had never seen anyone quite like this little English girl who used strange long words; he recalled that when he first saw her she seemed to be talking to a serpent—a white-mouthed moccasin, in fact.

    The Berrybender Narratives Larry McMurtry 2004

  • The prince did not enjoy snakes as much as he did lizards, but he knew enough about the species to recognize the white-mouthed viper as more of a swimmer than a tree climber.

    The Veiled Dragon Denning, Troy 1996

  • A forest cat, perhaps a white-mouthed snake " the great forest has its ways. "

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Roaring white-mouthed in all the great cliff's gaps,

    Georgian Poetry 1911-12 Various 1912

  • Lobais, and the nine poets of the Fomor that had learning and the gift of foreknowledge, and Lobais the Druid, and Balor himself and his twelve white-mouthed sons, and Ceithlenn of the Crooked Teeth, his queen.

    Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

  • A forest cat, perhaps a white-mouthed snake ... the great forest has its ways. "

    The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Then Clovis had come, trembly-handed, white-mouthed, not touching, but somehow seeming to lean on Whit, who was with him; and Whit, like the black man pushing the cart, had said: They’ll keep her—a little while.

    The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

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