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lantern jaws |
lantern pinion |
lantern slide |
lantern wheel |
lantern-fly |
lantern-jawed
| lanternfish
| lanternfly
| lanthanide
| lanthanide series
| lanthanite
lantern-jawed
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective lantern-jawed has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
lantern-jawed, a.
Having lantern jaws or long, thin jaws; as, a lantern-jawed person. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
lantern-jawed
Thinness
N narrowness, thinness, narrowness, closeness, exility, exiguity, line, hair's breadth, finger's breadth, strip, streak, vein, monolayer, epitaxial deposition, thinness, tenuity, emaciation, macilency, marcor, shaving, slip, thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone, middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass, ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass, ravine, narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering, contraction, narrow, close, slender, thin, fine, thread-like, finespun, gossamer, paper-thin, taper, slim, slight-made, scant, scanty, spare, delicate, incapacious, contracted, unexpanded &c (expand), slender as a thread, emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent, lank, lanky, weedy, skinny, scrawny slinky, starved, starveling, herring gutted, worn to a shadow, lean as a rake, thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer, hatchet-faced, lantern-jawed, attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned, monomolecular.
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