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jowl

ʤaʊl
WordNet
  1. (n) jowl
    the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
  2. (n) jowl
    a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Jowl
    joul or jōl The cheek; the jaw.
  2. Jowl
    To throw, dash, or knock. "How the knave jowls it to the ground."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) jowl
    The cheek.
  2. (n) jowl
    The cheek or head of a pig, salmon, etc., prepared for the table: as, jowl and greens is a Virginia dish.
  3. jowl
    To strike or dash, as the jowl or head; butt; clash with violence, as horns.
  4. jowl
    To scold; “jaw.”
  5. jowl
    In coal-mining, to hammer on the coal for the purpose of ascertaining what thickness intervenes between two contiguous workings.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Jowl
    jowl the jaw or cheek
  2. (v.t) Jowl
    jōl (Shak.) Same as Jole, to beat.
Idioms

Cheek by jowl - If things or people are cheek by jowl, they are very close together.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary For older chole, chaul, AS. ceaft, jaw. Cf. Chaps

Usage in the news

Can facial yoga rejuvenate aging jowls. nymag.com

A Palestinian Boy Forced to Live Cheek by Jowl with Israeli Settlers. slate.com

Kptm.com Shaft Medical San Diego Now Offers The Latest Micro Fractional Skin Laser Tightening Procedure To Eliminate Saggy 'Hound Jowls' In Men And Women. kptm.com

Cheek by Jowl's Declan Donnellan on 'Othello. brooklynpaper.com

The Cheek by Jowl Company, which has made its international reputation through unconventional productions of classics, offers an answer to skeptics who still believe the old canard that the English are stuffy about their Shakespeare. nytimes.com

Even in this cheek-by-jowl town, the realm of other people's apartments remains resolutely mysterious. nytimes.com

It means you have fresh meat for New Year's luncheon - opossum with sweet potato stuffing, hawg jowl, turnip greens and, of course, black-eyed peas. thetown-crier.com

One of the horrors of the time was the cheek-by-jowl coexistence of oppressor and oppressed . nytimes.com

Sitting by a window, slurping at bone broth, life's as sweet as a mirin-braised jowl. villagevoice.com

Randy Zweiban of Province tackles this sweet-tart fruit with "jowl-grabbing acidity.". chicagoreader.com

Did you know pigs have jowls. ocweekly.com

2 slices hog jowl bacon, cubed 2 ½ cups peeled and cubed potatoes 1 cup thinly sliced celery 1 onion, chopped 6 cups shredded collard greens 2 cans chicken broth 1 bay leaf ½ teaspoon ground black pepper 2 (15 ounce) cans black eyed peas. ifr.com

Kptm.com Shaft Medical San Diego Now Offers The Latest Micro Fractional Skin Laser Tightening Procedure To Eliminate Saggy ' Hound Jowls' In Men And Women. kptm.com

The latest chapter of the Cage: Beyond Silence festival, celebrating the centennial of the composer who institutionalized silence as an expressive entity, was cheek-by-jowl with Curtis 20/21, the Curtis Institute's modern- music group. philly.com

Between downtown Beirut and Corniche al-Mazraa is a densely populated area where Sunnis, Shiites, and Druze live cheek by jowl. pbs.org

Usage in scientific papers

This analyses matter into extensionless particles: either point-particles separated from each other by a vacuum, or the extensionless infinitesimal constituents of a continuum (i.e. continuous body), “cheek by jowl” with each other.
On the Persistence of Homogeneous Matter

Usage in literature

I began writing this at Graham's in Glasgow, but was interrupted by a jowl of Salmon; every thing there reminded me of you. "Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica" by James Boswell

Here are ague and salubrity, cheek by jowl. "The Greville Memoirs" by Charles C. F. Greville

To the eight entered a hardened sergeant-major, purpled-jowled and soldierly. "The Woman from Outside" by Hulbert Footner

The square, heavy-jowled face was strangely calm. "Get Out of Our Skies!" by E. K. Jarvis

Perhaps they have watched us for years, watching life on the world increase, lapping their monstrous jowls over the fattening of the Earth. "Hellhounds of the Cosmos" by Clifford Donald Simak

Buck could make out nothing definite about the face save that it was smooth-shaven and rather heavy-jowled. "Shoe-Bar Stratton" by Joseph Bushnell Ames

Moisture gathered on his jet-black nose; he licked his jowl. "A Young Man in a Hurry" by Robert W. Chambers

He shot a quick glance of dislike at Richford's heavy jowl. "The Slave of Silence" by Fred M. White

Gulwing and Hartridge were over there on the sofa, cheek by jowl, and all was going well. "Sundry Accounts" by Irvin S. Cobb

Now they stand forlornly cheek by jowl with new yellow brick. "Highways and Byways in Surrey" by Eric Parker

Usage in poetry
You are my candidate, dear Buck,
And I your jolly pal;
You need not doubt your Hiland's pluck,
It's cheek by jowl with mal.
I don't yield to you, big, jowl-faced eagle.
Nor you nor your blood-thirsty sun
That sucks up blood
Leaving a nervous people.
But by there came a mighty boar,
His jowl and tushes red with gore,
And on his curled snout he bore
A bracelet rich and rare O!
Those ashes shine like ruby wine,
Like bag of Tyrian murex spilt,
The claw, the jowl of the flying fowl
Are with the glorious anguish gilt.
Like holy writ and creed of fane,
Heart to heart, and cheek by jowl,
The courts their virtues still retain,
And keep the deed above the roll.
Pig-eyed and heavy jowled he stood and puffed a big cigar;
As cool as though he ruled the roost in some Montmartre bar.
He seemed to say, "I've got a cinch, a double diamond hitch:
I'll skin this Muscovitish oaf, this Riley Dooleyvitch.