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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jowl has 2 senses
- jowl(n = noun.body) jawbone, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla - the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth; Array has parts: gnathion, gonion, mandibular notch, pogonion, symphysion, condylar process, condyloid process, mandibular condyle, coronoid process of the mandible
- jowl(n = noun.body) Array - a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging); Array is a part of face, human face
is a kind of articulator, jaw
has particulars: lantern jaw
is a kind of feature, lineament
Derived form adjective jowly1
CIDE DICTIONARY
jowl, n. [For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft jaw. Cf. Chaps.].
The cheek; the jaw. [1913 Webster]
jowl, v. t.
To throw, dash, or knock. [1913 Webster]
"How the knave jowls it to the ground."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
jowl, n.
1 the jaw or jawbone.
2 the cheek (cheek by jowl).
1 the jaw or jawbone.
2 the cheek (cheek by jowl).
Derivative
-jowled adj. (in comb.).
jowl, n.
1 the external loose skin on the throat or neck when prominent.
2 the dewlap of oxen, wattle of a bird, etc.
1 the external loose skin on the throat or neck when prominent.
2 the dewlap of oxen, wattle of a bird, etc.
Derivative
jowly adj.
Etymology
ME cholle neck f. OE ceole
THESAURUS
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, yapROGET THESAURUS
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Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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