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/tʃik baɪ dʒaʊl/ Listen

noun

Cheek n.

The side of the face below the eye.

The cheek bone. (Obs.)

pl. (Mech.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

pl. The branches of a bridle bit.

(Founding) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.

Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. (Slang)

Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the face; esp., the malar bone.

Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate.

Cheek pouch (Zool.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food.

Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block.

Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest.

Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth.

Butment cheek. See under Butment.

Jowl n. (Written also jole, choule, chowle, and geoule) The cheek; the jaw.

Cheek by jowl, with the cheeks close together; side by side; in close proximity. "I will go with thee cheek by jole." " Sits cheek by jowl."

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... "There's not a man of them, Kitty," he would say, "but has ideas; and there's not an idea in the town five years old." But generally he was cordial with them all, going off into rapt admiration of each new prophet as he arose, and he would willingly have stood cheek by jowl with them in their planting and watering and increase if they had not snubbed him from the first. Book-shops full of old plays, and a man who talked of Scott's width of imagination and Clay's statesmanship, were indigestible matter which Berrytown would gladly ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various

... dragged away, cheek by jowl, with the half-cooked venison upon the back of his own horse; and Robin and his band took charge of the whole company and led them through the forest glades till they came to an open space ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

... curates—a few chosen rectors whose faces have been but lately elevated to the purple—a team of prebends issuing sleek from their golden stalls—a picked bishop—a sacred band the elite of the squirearchy—with a corresponding sprinkling of superior noblemen from lords to dukes—and then to compare them, cheek by jowl, with an equal number of external objects taken from the common run of Cockneys. This, Doctor, is manifestly what you are ettling at—but you must clap your hand, Doctor, without discrimination, on the great body of the rural population of England, male ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... British Museum an enormous mind. Consider that Plato is there cheek by jowl with Aristotle; and Shakespeare with Marlowe. This great mind is hoarded beyond the power of any single mind to possess it. Nevertheless (as they take so long finding one's walking-stick) one can't help thinking how one might come with a notebook, ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... have no shame, Cheek by jowl, and knee by knee: What care I for any name? What for ...

— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson

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