a. Having a black mouth; fig. slanderous, calumnious.

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1595.  Polimanteia (1881), 33. Blackemouthed enuie.

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1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., iii. (1821), 256. Blacke mouthed railing Rabshakeh.

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1689.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2427/4. One black brindled Bull-Bitch Black Mouth’d.

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1697.  Snake in Grass (ed. 2), 281. All the Black-Mouth’d and Hellish Venom.

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