About The Word Jowl
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Jowl
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What's The Definition Of Jowl?
[n] the lower jawbone in vertebrates; it is hinged to open the mouth
[n] a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging) Synonyms | Synonyms for Jowl: jawbone | lower jaw | lower jawbone | mandible | mandibula | submaxilla Related Terms | Find terms related to Jowl: bank | bazoo | beam | border | broadside | chaps | cheek | chop | chops | coast | embouchure | flank | gab | gob | hand | handedness | haunch | hip | jaw | jaws | jowls | kisser | laterality | lips | mandibles | many-sidedness | maw | maxilla | mouth | mug | multilaterality | mush | muzzle | oral cavity | planking | premaxilla | profile | quarter | shore | side | siding | temple | trap | unilaterality | yap See Also | articulator | bone | condylar process | condyloid process | coronoid process of the mandible | face | feature | gnathion | gonion | human face | jaw | lantern jaw | lineament | mandibular condyle | mandibular notch | os | pogonion | symphysion Jowl In Webster's Dictionary \Jowl\, n. [For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft jaw. Cf.
{Chaps}.]
The cheek; the jaw. [Written also {jole}, {choule}, {chowle},
and {geoule}.]
{Cheek by jowl}, with the cheeks close together; side by
side; in close proximity. ``I will go with three cheek by
jole.'' --Shak. `` Sits cheek by jowl.'' --Dryden.
\Jowl\, v. t. To throw, dash, or knock. [Obs.] How the knave jowls it to the ground. --Shak. |
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