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jaw
has definitions from the fields of anatomy,zoology,food
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[ noun ] (anatomy,zoology) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth
Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)His face was fuller ; his lips and the usually sharp lines of his jaw had become swollen looking . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)Once covertly looking at Simms_Purdew , the only man in the world whom he hated , he had seen the heavy , slack , bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel , obscene banter , and had seen the pale blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment , and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature . (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)She swung her eyes up to the blue of the window , her jaws gently mashing the bitter beans . Related terms os skeletal_structure beak upper_jaw skull lower_jaw alveolar_ridge alveolar_arch upper_jaw |
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[ verb ] talk socially without exchanging too much information
Examples "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" |
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[ verb ] censure severely or angrily
Examples "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car" "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister" "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" "check" is archaic |
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[ noun ] holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object
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