(n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
(n.) An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
(n.) The act of opening wide, or of gaping.
(v. i.) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.
(v. i.) To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.
(v. i.) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
(v. i.) To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.